Baggy Pants Comedy - Burlesque and the Oral Tradition - Paperback - 2014
Andrew Davis
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Resumo
Taking readers inside the burlesque houses of Depression-era America, Davis explores the role of comedy in a show remembered mostly for strip-tease. It examines how burlesque comics, straightmen, and talking women approached the craft of comedy, working in a genre that relied on a remembered tradition of comedy bits that circulated orally.
Year of publication: 2014
Pagination: 304 pages, Includes 21 pgs illus
Format: Paperback
Serie: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Year of publication: 2014
Pagination: 304 pages, Includes 21 pgs illus
Format: Paperback
Serie: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Baggy Pants Comedy - Burlesque and the Oral Tradition -...
Resumo
Taking readers inside the burlesque houses of Depression-era America, Davis explores the role of comedy in a show remembered mostly for strip-tease. It examines how burlesque comics, straightmen, and talking women approached the craft of comedy, working in a genre that relied on a remembered tradition of comedy bits that circulated orally.
Year of publication: 2014
Pagination: 304 pages, Includes 21 pgs illus
Format: Paperback
Serie: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Year of publication: 2014
Pagination: 304 pages, Includes 21 pgs illus
Format: Paperback
Serie: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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- Editora
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Palgrave Macmillan
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234 x 154 x 17
- Peso
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458
- Tema
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Theatre studies|Variety shows, music hall, cabaret
- Época
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Inter-war period, 1918-1939
- Origem
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United Kingdom
- EAN
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9781137378729
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