The Genesis of Mass Culture
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The Genesis of Mass Culture

Show Business Live in America, 1840 to 1940

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The Genesis of Mass Culture

Show Business Live in America, 1840 to 1940

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Athorough survey of the origins and development of the major distinct American commercial entertainments that emerged between over the course of the 19th century and into the 20th, including P.T. Barnum_s American Museum, freak show, and circus, as well as blackface minstrelry, Buffalo Bill_s Wild West Show, and vaudeville.

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Year
2008
ISBN
9780230612129

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. CONTENTS
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. CHAPTER 1 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM: BARNUMā€™SGREAT LEAP FORWARD
  5. CHAPTER 2 THE FREAK SHOW BUSINESS:ā€œSTEP RIGHT UP, FOLKSā€
  6. CHAPTER 3 BLACKFACE MINSTRELSY:THE FIRST ALL-AMERICAN SHOW
  7. CHAPTER 4 THE AMERICANIZED CIRCUS:BARNUM & BAILEY IN EXCELSIS
  8. CHAPTER 5 BUFFALO BILLā€™S WILD WEST: AMERICANCULTURE CROSSES THE ATLANTIC
  9. CHAPTER 6 VAUDEVILLE I: RISE AND DECLINE OF ANEMERGENT MASS CULTURE
  10. CHAPTER 7 VAUDEVILLE II: CULTURAL EXCHANGE,DEPARTURE, AND TRANSMUTATION
  11. CONCLUSION
  12. APPENDIX I P. T. BARNUM: HUMBUG AND REALITY
  13. APPENDIX II HARRY HOUDINIā€™S EARLY CAREER
  14. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  15. NOTES
  16. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  17. INDEX