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Champagne Charlie and pretty Jemima : variety theater in the nineteenth century
- Title
- Champagne Charlie and pretty Jemima : variety theater in the nineteenth century / Gillian M. Rodger.
- Author
- Rodger, Gillian M.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 261 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Music in American life
- Uniform Title
- Music in American life.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The first decade. The singing saloonkeeper -- Girls! girls! girls! the entrepreneurial manager -- Performers take charge -- Novelty acts in concert saloons: equestrians, trapeze artists, and acrobats -- Tripping the light fantastic: dancers -- Entertainment comes to the fore. Legal intervention: the anti-concert saloon bill and its aftermath -- Variety in times of national conflict and economic turmoil -- Just to please the boys: seriocomic singers -- Dutch, Irish, minstrels, and other characters: male comic singers -- Just ordinary workingmen: seriocomic songs for men -- Champagne Charlie: the fantasy of leisure for the workingman -- Sustaining business in difficult times. What's in a name? Vaudeville vs. variety in New York and in regional theater -- Sex rears its ugly head--again: female minstrelsy -- Moral reform in regional variety: the fight to preserve community standards -- Frontier revelry vs. respectable variety: industry, audiences, and sustainable leisure in economically difficult times -- Conclusion: entertainment as industry.
- Call Number
- MWFH 10-6217
- ISBN
- 9780252035395 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0252035399 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780252077340 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0252077342 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010016575
- OCLC
- YBP 2010016575
- Author
- Rodger, Gillian M.
- Title
- Champagne Charlie and pretty Jemima : variety theater in the nineteenth century / Gillian M. Rodger.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.
- Series
- Music in American lifeMusic in American life.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- MWFH 10-6217