From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910

by Robert M. Lewis

Book Overview

Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes--all visited rural fairgrounds, small-town opera houses, and big-city palaces around the country, giving millions of people an escape from their everyday lives for a dime or a quarter. In From Traveling Show to Vaudeville, Robert M. Lewis has assembled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801887488
• ISBN13: 9780801887482
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher