American Vaudeville

by Geoffrey Hilsabeck

A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture--and with old, weird America.

At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere--then, suddenly, it was nowhere. This book tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country using lists, creation myths,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952271061
• ISBN13: 9781952271069
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 8.0"