Description: This entertaining and enlightening book depicts the rise of popular culture in America by brilliantly recapturing the essence and commercial trappings of one of its most vital forms of entertainment-the vaudeville show. "A fascinating and highly readable social history...Snyde...
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"For anyone interested in American entertainment and popular culture, this pioneering history is not only 'must reading' but, like its subject, plenty of fun." --Kathy Peiss
"The most authoritative book on American vaudeville...a remarkably good read, filled with colorful details and incisive commentary on American popular culture." --David Nasaw "A fascinating and highly readable social history." --Thomas Bender, New York University