Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety
Celebrity Turns
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave USA
Published:16th Dec '08
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This book shows eminent actors performing under stringent conditions in vaudeville. It was a strange notion in 1900 that leading lights of the legitimate stage would ever join a bill of 'turns', with everything from song-and-dance to criminals regaling crowds with their exploits. It chronicles renowned actors showing rough fare in rough times.
'Woods shows how international performers in American vaudeville and British music hall wrought new understandings of celebrity, gender, patriotism and empire. This lively storyilluminates an era in global culture that bears important lessons for our own time.' - Robert W. Snyder, Rutgers-Newark; Author of The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781403975362
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
307 pages
2008 ed.