Springhall, John. <br/><br/>
The genesis of mass culture :  show business live in America, 1840 to 1940 / 
John Springhall. 
 - New York :  Palgrave Macmillan,  2008. 
 - ix, 242 p. :  ill. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-226) and index. 
<br/><br/>The American museum: Barnum's great leap forward -- The freak show business: "step right up, folks" -- Blackface Minstrelsy: the first all-American show -- The Americanized circus: Barnum and Bailey In excelsis -- Buffalo Bill's wild west: American culture crosses the Atlantic -- Vaudeville I: rise and decline of an emergent mass culture -- Vaudeville II: cultural exchange, departure, and transmutation. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780230604490 0230604498 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007039231 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Performing arts--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Performing arts--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 2245  / S769g 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.09