An edition of Champagne Charlie and pretty Jemima (2010)

Champagne Charlie and pretty Jemima

variety theater in the nineteenth century

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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Pages
261

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Subjects

Vaudeville, History, Musical theater, Social surveys, Gender identity in music, Sex in music

Places

United States

Times

19th century

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Champagne Charlie and pretty Jemima: variety theater in the nineteenth century
2010, University of Illinois Press
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Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima: Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century
2010, University of Illinois Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Urbana
Series
Music in American life, Music in American life

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792.70973/09034
Library of Congress
PN1968.U5 R63 2010, PN1968

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 261 p.
Number of pages
261

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OL27125484M
ISBN 10
0252035399, 0252077342
ISBN 13
9780252035395, 9780252077340
LCCN
2010016575
OCLC/WorldCat
460058098

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