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Author: Christina Meyer
Publisher: Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Published: 2019-11-20
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780814214169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigates the historical factors, practices, and strategies involved in the production and proliferation of the Yellow Kid comics.
Author: Asa Briggs
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicholas Gebhardt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-03-22
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 022644872X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying the groundwork for the music industry we know today. In Vaudeville Melodies, Nicholas Gebhardt introduces us to the performers, managers, and audiences who turned disjointed variety show acts into a phenomenally successful business. First introduced in the late nineteenth century, by 1915 vaudeville was being performed across the globe, incorporating thousands of performers from every branch of show business. Its astronomical success relied on a huge network of theatres, each part of a circuit and administered from centralized booking offices. Gebhardt shows us how vaudeville transformed relationships among performers, managers, and audiences, and argues that these changes affected popular music culture in ways we are still seeing today. Drawing on firsthand accounts, Gebhardt explores the practices by which vaudeville performers came to understand what it meant to entertain an audience, the conditions in which they worked, the institutions they relied upon, and the values they imagined were essential to their success.
Author: Michael J. Haupert
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-08-17
Total Pages: 254
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book serves as a one-stop source for comprehensive information on the entertainment industry, providing a historical overview of the economics of the field, a series of short biographies of the impact makers, and an extensive annotated bibliography of more sources for in-depth research. Entertainment Industry: A Reference Handbook casts the spotlight on the evolution of the entertainment industry over the entire span of the 20th century, covering everything from vaudeville to radio and from sports to television and movies. It explores how the entertainment industry stands apart from other high-dollar, big-business enterprises with regard to how its economy is sustained, and it serves as a handy source for more in-depth information that general readers will find fascinating. An extensive annotated bibliography guides reader through their research, while a historical overview of the economics of the industry, a series of short biographies of the impact makers in the industry, and sources of more current information makes this work essential reading for anyone seeking comprehensive and specific information about the entertainment industry.
Author: Harold Mendelsohn
Publisher: New Haven : College & University Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dolf Zillmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000-05
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1135667543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays covers all essential aspects of media entertainment, written in a non-technical style for appeal to scholars in communication and psychology as well as to students at mid to advanced levels of study.
Author: Asa Briggs
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780252018725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian Dolan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2009-01-16
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0742564614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter in the story of contemporary life. The player piano made the American music industry-and American music itself-modern. For years, Tin Pan Alley composers and performers labored over scores for quick ditties destined for the vaudeville circuit or librettos destined for the Broadway stage. But, the introduction of the player piano in the early 1900s, transformed Tin Pan Alley's guild of composers, performers, and theater owners into a music industry. The player piano, with its perforated music rolls that told the pianos what key to strike, changed musical performance because it made a musical piece standard, repeatable, and easy rather than something laboriously learned. It also created a national audience because the music that was played in New Orleans or Kansas City could also be played in New York or Missoula, as new music (ragtime) and dance (fox-trot) styles crisscrossed the continent along with the player piano's music rolls. By the 1920s, only automobile sales exceeded the amount generated by player pianos and their music rolls. Consigned today to the realm of collectors and technological arcane, the player piano was a moving force in American music and American life.
Author: Byung-Chul Han
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 0262354551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety—infotainment, edutainment, servotainment—and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg. In Good Entertainment, Byung-Chul Han examines the notion of entertainment—its contemporary ubiquity, and its philosophical genealogy. Entertainment today, in all its totalizing variety, has an apparently infinite capacity for incorporation: infotainment, edutainment, servotainment, confrontainment. Entertainment is held up as a new paradigm, even a new credo for being—and yet, in the West, it has had inescapably negative connotations. Han traces Western ideas of entertainment, considering, among other things, the scandal that arose from the first performance of Bach's Saint Matthew's Passion (deemed too beautiful, not serious enough); Kant's idea of morality as duty and the entertainment value of moralistic literature; Heidegger's idea of the thinker as a man of pain; Kafka's hunger artist and the art of negativity, which takes pleasure in annihilation; and Robert Rauschenberg's refusal of the transcendent. The history of the West, Han tells us, is a passion narrative, and passion appears as a killjoy. Achievement is the new formula for passion, and play is subordinated to production, gamified. And yet, he argues, at their core, passion and entertainment are not entirely different. The pure meaninglessness of entertainment is adjacent to the pure meaning of passion. The fool's smile resembles the pain-racked visage of Homo doloris. In Good Entertainment, Han explores this paradox.
Author: Paul Nathanson
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780791407097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the Rainbow shows how Dorothy's passage from Kansas to Oz and back again recapitulates paradigmatic stories of both America and Christianity. Defining human identity on three symbolic levels (individual, collective, and cosmic), Nathanson shows that The Wizard of Oz has come to be a "secular myth."
