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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"vaudeville"”.
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Vaudeville: A How to Guide
At the turn of the twentieth century vaudeville was the most prevalent form of theatrical entertainment. With more than 1,500 houses across the country, vaudeville reached in excess of 30 million audience members each year. It directly led to the advent of film and radio. Yet barely one hundred …
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No Sleep 'til Minsky's: A One-Man Tribute to Burlesque and Vaudeville.
… process began with research into the forms of vaudeville and burlesque, including films of period acts, study of autobiographies and biographies of burlesque performers, and study of historical scripts performed in the time period and stored at the Library of Congress.</p><p>The format of the …
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Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals, and the Mass-Marketing of Amusement, 1895-1915
<p>Vaudeville was the most popular form of entertainment in the United States, from roughly the 1890s through World War I. In fact, it can reasonably be called the first truly mass form of entertainment in the United States, and perhaps the world. This dissertation examines how vaudeville grew as …
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Vaudeville, Popular Entertainment and Cultural Division in the Inland Empire, 1880-1914
<p>This paper discusses the emergence of vaudeville in California’s Inland Empire region of San Bernardino and Riverside counties. It will consider the social changes underway in late nineteenth-century America and their impact on attitudes towards popular entertainment. This paper will draw on …
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Strangers at home: Guido Deiro and his accordion in the American vaudeville theater
<p>My thesis considers the influence of vaudeville on the popularization of the accordion in America between the 1910s and 1920s. Scholarship on the accordion has tended to echo historical caricatures of the instrument as a consequence of folkloric, lowbrow, and even indecent class mores. In this …
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Laughing and Learning Through David Quammen's Natural Acts
… "divided about equally between edification and vaudeville." "My ambition," he disclosed additionally, "has been to offer some small moments of constructive disorientation in the way nature is seen and thought about." This study illustrates the formula by which Quammen succeeds in Natural Acts …
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The stirrings still of popular forms of entertainment in Samuel Beckett's first published play : examining the influences of the Music-Hall, Vaudeville, Circus and Early screen comedy on Waiting for Godot
… culled from the English music-hall, American vaudeville, circus clowning and, finally, early screen comedy in order to present us with a vision of the human condition that is as universal as it is devastatingly comical or, for that matter, comically devastating. Special attention is paid to …
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Immigration, identity, and industry: Expanding U.S. accordion history through the careers of Santo Santucci and Nick Santucci
… the accordion’s presence and reception in vaudeville and in Chicago’s accordion industry of the 1930s–1950s. More specifically, this thesis examines how Italian immigrant identity was connected with the accordion on the vaudeville stage; changing perceptions of the accordion in vaudeville …
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Immigration, identity, and industry: Expanding U.S. accordion history through the careers of Santo Santucci and Nick Santucci
… the accordion’s presence and reception in vaudeville and in Chicago’s accordion industry of the 1930s–1950s. More specifically, this thesis examines how Italian immigrant identity was connected with the accordion on the vaudeville stage; changing perceptions of the accordion in vaudeville …
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Speech Labs: Language Experiments, Early Poetry Audio Archives, And The Poetic Record
… archivists, one informed by the profitability of vaudeville monologues, this work contends that poetry recordings have been artificially severed from apposite vocal arts by the conception that a poetry recording must bear an antecedent written text. Tracing a continuum of the aesthetics of the …
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The Inspiration of Imogene Coca: A Biography and Original Musical
… This thesis includes a biography of her work in vaudeville, Broadway, television, and film, and an original musical inspired by that body of work. Coca’s comedy is timeless and the next generation deserves an opportunity to know her.
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American women saxophonists from 1870-1930 : their careers and repertoire
… an introduction to the Chautauqua, lyceum, and vaudeville circuits. Chapter three contains biographical entries for forty-four women saxophonists from 1870-1930. Then follows in Chapter four a discussion of the saxophonists' repertoire. Parlor, religious, and minstrel songs are examined, as are …
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The Odyssey of African American Women in Films: From the Silent Era to the Post-War Years to the 1950s
… women that developed in minstrel shows and vaudeville stereotyped African American actresses. My thesis begins with minstrelsy and vaudeville because of its influence on creating negative stereotypical roles in films. The thesis then focuses on the film period of silent era through the …
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A shanda fur de Yehudim: Jewishness in network sitcom television.
… the second chapter studies Jewishness in Vaudeville and early Hollywood film. The third chapter studies Jewishness in the first 40 years of network sitcom television. The fourth chapter studies Jewishness in the network sitcoms of the 1990s. The conclusions of the study focus on the state …
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From revolution to revolt in theatre artistry: A shift in American attitude from Vietnam to Watergate reflected in the musicals "Chicago" and "Hair"
… attitude in its seductive dances and vaudeville acts, luring an audience into inhumanity. Commercial art thrives on plays that appeal to its target audience as proven by today's successful runs of Rent (a musical often compared to Hair) and the revival of Chicago.
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A Survey of the Professional and Major Amateur Theatre Presentations in Saskatoon from 1912 to1930
… 1930 are dealt 'With under five headings: Vaudeville, Repertory Companies, Local Shows, Travelling Shows and Specials. Under each heading, trends are reported and notable or recurring shows are listed. A concluding chapter is added, in which the particular years 1912, 1922, 1925, 1929 and …
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“Pleasant Episodes” of Gastronomy: Food and Drink in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Beautiful and Damned</em>
… drink in Ivy League supper clubs of Manhattan, vaudeville theaters, and houses of languor in Upstate New York. Building upon George J. Searles's article "The Symbolic Function of Food and Eating in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned," this thesis examines the meaning of Fitzgerald's …
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An Art-Based Heuristic Study: How a Male Student with Asperger’s Syndrome Completed an Art Therapy Master’s Program
… Asperger’s Body, (2) Cruel Snap Judgements, (3) Vaudeville, (4) Quirky Creativity, (5) Inner Strength, (6) Hope, (7) Nourishing Connections, and (8) Creative Synthesis. The findings were that the data is consistent with prior research on the experience of Asperger’s Syndrome individuals in higher …
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The Costumed Catholic: Catholics, Whiteness, and the Movies, 1928 - 1973
… inherited those ideas from minstrelsy and vaudeville, and applied new stereotypes like urban settings and violence that they thought typified the behavior of all Catholics. Catholics responded by creating the Legion of Decency and paying more attention to film content beginning in the …
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The "New" sounds of the slap-of-the-stick : Termite Terrace (1937-1943) and the slapstick tradition
… from Commedia dell'Arte to American Vaudeville to American live-action comedy to American animation. Since sound plays a major role inside the lazzi, the analysis focuses on the sound practices and technologies that have been used across media to produce comic effects. In addition, …
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