![]() Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. Includes bibliographical references and index. ![]() From its infancy, thirty years before, it had grown with such amazing rapidity that even in 1900 it had dominated popular amusements in the more thickly populated areas of the United States. ![]() ![]() Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1965. AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE by 1915 had reached its full maturity. Saved in: Bibliographic Details Author / Creator: ![]()
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