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The Vogue for Vaudeville
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Why did vaudeville become an entertainment “craze” and develop a national distribution network? This chapter argues that vaudeville performers were style-leaders and the first modern celebrities. Vaudeville’s modish associations made it especially popular with female spectators of diverse class, racial and ethnic identities. Vaudeville profited from the popularity of variety entertainment among fashionable people which roof gardens and music halls established in the 1880s and 1890s. Those earlier amusements helped break the variety show’s connection to male-dominated concert saloons and established the variety show’s stars as style-leaders.
University of North Carolina Press
Title: The Vogue for Vaudeville
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Why did vaudeville become an entertainment “craze” and develop a national distribution network? This chapter argues that vaudeville performers were style-leaders and the first modern celebrities.
Vaudeville’s modish associations made it especially popular with female spectators of diverse class, racial and ethnic identities.
Vaudeville profited from the popularity of variety entertainment among fashionable people which roof gardens and music halls established in the 1880s and 1890s.
Those earlier amusements helped break the variety show’s connection to male-dominated concert saloons and established the variety show’s stars as style-leaders.
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