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From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830--1910
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville Theatrical Spectacle in America 18301910
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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