The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York

Author:   Robert W. Snyder
Publisher:   Ivan R Dee, Inc
ISBN:  

9781566632980


Pages:   244
Publication Date:   15 February 2000
Format:   Paperback
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The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York


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"This entertaining and enlightening book depicts the rise of popular culture in America by brilliantly recapturing the essence and commercial trappings of one of its most vital forms of entertainment—the vaudeville show. Vaudeville was a meeting place, an inclusive form of theatre that flourished especially in New York, where it fostered cultural exchange among the city's ethnic groups. In The Voice of the City, Mr. Snyder reconstructs the famous acts, describes the different theatres, and shows how entrepreneurs created a near monopoly over bookings, theatres, and performers. He also gives us vaudeville's decline, its audiences usurped by musical comedy, radio, and the movies. ""A fascinating and highly readable social history....By exploring the place of vaudeville in the neighborhoods and in the city central theatre district, Robert Snyder brilliantly illuminates the way city culture was made and worked in the lives of people at the turn of the century.""—Thomas Bender. ""The most authoritative book on American vaudeville...also a remarkably good read, filled with colorful details and incisive commentary on American popular culture in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century.""—David Nasaw."

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Author:   Robert W. Snyder
Publisher:   Ivan R Dee, Inc
Imprint:   Ivan R Dee, Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9781566632980


ISBN 10:   1566632986
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   15 February 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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A fascinating and highly readable social history.--Bender, Thomas


The most authoritative book on American vaudeville...a remarkably good read, filled with colorful details and incisive commentary on American popular culture.--David Nasaw


A fascinating and highly readable social history.--Thomas Bender


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Robert W. Snyder, a former newspaper reporter, has taught at Princeton and at New York University and is now an associate of the Media Studies Center in New York.

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