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

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

400 pages • paperback

2 editions

nonfiction art history travel informative medium-paced
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Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes--all visited rural fairgrounds, small-town opera ho...

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