This work reveals the often racy, ribald, and sexually charged nature of the vaudeville stage, looking at a broad array of provocative performers from disrobing dancers to nude posers to skimpily dressed athletes. Examining the ways in which big-time vaudeville nonetheless managed to market itself as pure, safe, and morally acceptable, this work compares the industrys marketing and promotional practices to those of other emergent mass-marketers of the vaudeville era in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. ...
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This work reveals the often racy, ribald, and sexually charged nature of the vaudeville stage, looking at a broad array of provocative performers from disrobing dancers to nude posers to skimpily dressed athletes. Examining the ways in which big-time vaudeville nonetheless managed to market itself as pure, safe, and morally acceptable, this work compares the industrys marketing and promotional practices to those of other emergent mass-marketers of the vaudeville era in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Included are in-depth examinations of important figures from the vaudeville stage such as Annette Kellerman and Eva Tanguay. The work attempts to address historical context as one means of understanding theseperformers with an appreciation for their rebelliousness. It discusses censorship and content control in the vaudeville era, and concludes with an analysis of films part in the fall of vaudeville. Many photographs, cartoons, and other illustrations are included.
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Good. Size: 7x0x10; McFarland and Company; Jefferson, 2004. Hardcover. A Good, illustrated boards, binding sturdy and intact, some board corner and spine edge wear, dent top rear board corner, small scratch mark top front board, couple of small abrasions top front board edge, red ink stamp bottom text block edge, abrasion top rear pastedown, some handling/scuffing to boards, mild spine lean, without Dust wrapper. A good and clean copy. 4to[quarto or approx. 9.5 x 12 inches], 198pp., notes, bibliography, indexed, b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
