TY  - BOOK
AU  - Springhall,John
TI  - The genesis of mass culture: show business live in America, 1840 to 1940 
SN  - 9780230604490
AV  - PN 2245 S769g 2008
U1  - 791.09 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-226) and index; 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
ER  -