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Baggy pants comedy : burlesque and the oral tradition / Andrew Davis.
- Title
- Baggy pants comedy : burlesque and the oral tradition / Andrew Davis.
- Author
- Davis, Andrew, 1952-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1942 .D275 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 288 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Baggy Pants Comedy takes readers inside the burlesque houses of Depression-era America to explore 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 not on scripts but on a remembered tradition of comedy bits that circulated orally. The book opens a long-neglected area of American folklore, presenting dozens of fondly-remembered routines like "Who's On First" and "Niagara Falls (Slowly I Turned)," as well as long-forgotten classics in print for the first time"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780230116795
- 0230116795
- LCCN
- ^^2011017477
- OCLC
- 703209400
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library