Excellent paperback copy. Clean, solid copy with unmarked text. Cover has minimal wear. Binding is tight and square; no creases to spine or cover. We are unable to ship oversize books and multi-volume sets internationally.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Early Entertainment: The Evolution of Show Business From 1840 to 1940

Publisher

Douglas Edward Fraser

Publication Date

2014

Language

English

ISBN 10

1508976945

ISBN 13

9781508976943

Binding

Paperback

Condition

Very Good +

Dust Jacket Condition

None as issued

Weight

15 ounces

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History:United States

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This book is filled with secrets, surprises, and delights. You will be introduced to, and become quite intimate with, the creation of everything that makes up entertainment and the activities that brought smiles to the faces of North America. Covering the roots of jazz, vaudeville, burlesque, big bands, silent movies, ragtime, television, bare-knuckle prize fights, minstrel shows, circus and carnivals, bebop, medicine shows, jug bands, bicycles, musicians’ drugs, radio, Model Ts, paddlewheelers, roller- skates, the blues, barnstorming, gramophones, dancing, barbershop quartets, stage microphones, Tin Pan Alley, washboard bands, swing, wild west shows and more. Lots of photographs and insight to subjects that you thought you knew about. Douglas Edward Fraser is a musicologist with a lifetime of knowledge. He includes many personal and family stories that have been chronicled from the experiences of three generations of professional entertainers. This is a book like no other, and it has been written to entertain and enlighten the readers that enjoy the Old West, Victorian, Edwardian and jazz eras.

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