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The genesis of mass culture : show business live in America, 1840 to 1940 / John Springhall.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.Description: ix, 242 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780230604490
  • 0230604498
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.09
LOC classification:
  • PN 2245 S769g 2008
Contents:
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.
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 2245 S769g 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000070685

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.

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