Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Voice of the CityCondition: NewEAN: 9781566632980ISBN: 9781566632980Publisher: Ivan R Dee, IncFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/15/2000Item Height: 196mmItem Length: 137mmItem Width: 19mmItem Weight: 286gAuthor: Robert W. SnyderLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New YorkISBN-10: 1566632986Description: This entertaining and enlightening book depicts the rise of popular culture in America by brilliantly recapturing the essence and commercial trappings of one of its most vital forms of entertainment—the vaudeville show. Vaudeville was a meeting place, an inclusive form of theatre that flourished especially in New York, where it fostered cultural exchange among the city's ethnic groups. In The Voice of the City, Mr. Snyder reconstructs the famous acts, describes the different theatres, and shows how entrepreneurs created a near monopoly over bookings, theatres, and performers. He also gives us vaudeville's decline, its audiences usurped by musical comedy, radio, and the movies. "A fascinating and highly readable social history....By exploring the place of vaudeville in the neighborhoods and in the city central theatre district, Robert Snyder brilliantly illuminates the way city culture was made and worked in the lives of people at the turn of the century."—Thomas Bender. "The most authoritative book on American vaudeville...also a remarkably good read, filled with colorful details and incisive commentary on American popular culture in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century."—David Nasaw.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryTopic: Music Dance & TheatreRelease Year: 2000 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Voice of the City
Title: The Voice of the City
EAN: 9781566632980
ISBN: 9781566632980
Release Date: 02/15/2000
Release Year: 2000
Subtitle: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York
ISBN-10: 1566632986
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Voice of the City : Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York
Number of Pages: 244 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Theater / History & Criticism, General, Popular Culture, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year: 2000
Item Height: 0.7 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Drama, Art, Performing Arts, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 10.1 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Robert W. Snyder
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
