American Vaudeville: A Celebration

Contents

• Preface
• By Frank Cullen
• CHAPTER 1 Introduction: My Life in Vaudeville
• CHAPTER 2 What Was Vaudeville?
• CHAPTER 3 The Beginnings of American Popular Music
• By Victoria Damore
• CHAPTER 4 Riverboats, Dime Museums, and Other Early American Diversions
• CHAPTER 5 Vaudeville Begins
• Tony Pastor: The Clean Entrepreneur by Victoria Moses
• CHAPTER 6 Vaudeville as Big Business
• By Frank Cullen, Anna Jennings, and Christopher Vasquez-Wright
• CHAPTER 7 The Great Variety Acts
• The History of Juggling by Emilio Rodriguez-Alvarez
• Plate Spinning by Victoria Esposito
• CHAPTER 8 The Great Dramatic Acts
• CHAPTER 9 Early Mega-Stars of Vaudeville
• CHAPTER 10 The Amazing and Unique Eva Tanguay
• The Salome Dancing Craze: Backstory by Brandon Neth
• CHAPTER 11 The March King and His Followers
• CHAPTER 12 The Belle Story
• By Katherine Raymer
• CHAPTER 13 The Age of Al Jolson
• CHAPTER 14 Black Vaudeville
• By Kevin Byrne
• CHAPTER 15 The Emergence of Dance in America
• CHAPTER 16 Vaudeville in World War I
• CHAPTER 17 Fads, Gimmicks, and Scandals
• Evelyn Nesbit: The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing by Kacie Lillejord
• All-Girl Orchestras by Erica Collins
• CHAPTER 18 Behind the Scenes
• Bibliography
• Index