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From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830--1910
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville Theatrical Spectacle in America 1830--1910
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 ever...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801887482
ISBN-10: 0801887488
Publication Date: 10/4/2007
Pages: 400
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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