Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition

by Andrew Davis

Book Overview

Baggy Pants Comedy takes readers inside the burlesque houses of Depression-era America to explore the role of comedy in a show remembered mostly for strip-tease. It examines how burlesque comics, straightmen, and talking women approached the craft of comedy, working in a genre that relied not on scripts but on a remembered tradition of comedy bits that circulated orally. The book opens a long-neglected area of American folklore, presenting dozens...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230116795
• ISBN13: 9780230116795
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"