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

by Robert W. Snyder

Book Overview

From 1880 to 1930, the vaudeville show reigned as the most popular form of entertainment in America. Vaudeville was a meeting place--an inclusive form of theatre that fostered cultural interaction between New Yorkers. With its daredevils, comics, tear-jerkers, slapstick clowns, and crooners, vaudeville succeeded in presenting as many voices as New York City itself, allowing them to swell together in a chorus rarely in unison, sometimes in harmony,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195052854
• ISBN13: 9780195052855
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"