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vaudeville: the eiron and alazon act
Vaudeville. Vaudeville, from the height of its appeal to its demise (1870-1930) remained a mass entertainment firmly planted in the lowbrow. Beneath vaudeville was burlesque which occupied a narrow band that teetered towards pornography and back to decadence. But lowbrow … Continue reading
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Tagged Adele Astaire, Aleister Crowley, bill bojangles robinson, Constance Rourke, Edward Bernays, eva tanguay, Fred Astaire, george ade, george fuller golden, gilbert seldes, Herman Melville, kevin courrier, nathanael west, Randy Newman, shirley temple, travis stewart, Walt Whitman
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vaudeville: american culture is performance
Vaudeville has been dead for over ninety years.The wandering minstrel had been replaced by the electronic age. The acrobats, the animal acts, the dancers, the singers, and the old-time comedians have all taken their bows and turned stage left into … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Jolson, alice lloyd, bert gordon, Constance Rourke, fred allen, gilbert sarony, gilbert seldes, H.L. Mencken, Jack Kerouac, june havoc, nancy a. walker, nathanael west, Norman Rockwell, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Halperin, Samuel Beckett, Van Wyck Brooks, vaudeville
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