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vaudeville

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
vaudeville , originally a light song, derived from the drinking and love songs formerly attributed to Olivier Basselin and called Vau, or Vaux, de Vire. Similar to the English music hall , American vaudeville was a live entertainment consisting of unrelated songs, dances, acrobatic and magic acts, and humorous skits and sketches by a variety of performers and acts, each on stage for about five minutes. From humble origins in barrooms and "museums," vaudeville became the dominant attraction in American popular entertainment, playing in hundreds of theaters throughout the United... Read more
Vaudeville in America
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Vaudeville in America. In this country the term “vaudeville” has almost ... real seeds of modern vaudeville in the “free concert saloons ... the field and whose vaudeville house in New York ... the term “vaudeville” began replacing ... Read more
Vaudeville
The Oxford Companion to United States History Vaudeville, the most popular form of American theatrical entertainment ... blackface comics, and shortened versions of full dramas, vaudeville played before elite and poor spectators, at sumptuous ... commercial force in the modernization of American culture, vaudeville also perpetuated and intensified racist ... Read more

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