Champagne Charlie and pretty Jemima
Subtitle: variety theater in the nineteenth century
By: Gillian M. Rodger
Series: Music in American life; Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780252035395; 9780252077340
Subjects: Vaudeville; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The first decade. The singing saloonkeeper; title: Girls! girls! girls! the entrepreneurial manager; title: Performers take charge; title: Novelty acts in concert saloons: equestrians, trapeze artists, and acrobats; title: Tripping the light fantastic: dancers; title: Entertainment comes to the fore. Legal intervention: the anti-concert saloon bill and its aftermath; title: Variety in times of national conflict and economic turmoil; title: Just to please the boys: seriocomic singers; title: Dutch, Irish, minstrels, and other characters: male comic singers; title: Just ordinary workingmen: seriocomic songs for men; title: Champagne Charlie: the fantasy of leisure for the workingman; title: Sustaining business in difficult times. What's in a name? Vaudeville vs. variety in New York and in regional theater; title: Sex rears its ugly head; title: again: female minstrelsy; title: Moral reform in regional variety: the fight to preserve community standards; title: Frontier revelry vs. respectable variety: industry, audiences, and sustainable leisure in economically difficult times; title: Conclusion: entertainment as industry.