Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century

Name: Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780252035395

ISBN-10: 0252035399

ISBN-13: 9780252035395

Edition: 2010

Authors: Gillian M. Rodger

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In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and comedy on radio and television. Fresh, bawdy, and unabashedly aimed at the working class, variety honed in on its audience's fascinations, emerging in the 1840s as a vehicle to accentuate class divisions and stoke curiosity about gender and sexuality. By the last two decades of the nineteenth century, variety theater developed into a platform for ideas about race and whiteness. Rodger traces the transformation of…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 6/17/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


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


Notes


Bibliography


Index