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

by Robert M. Lewis

Book Overview

Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes--all... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801870879
• ISBN13: 9780801870873
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher