Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition

by A. Davis

2020-12-30 13:38:28

Taking readers inside the burlesque houses of Depression-era America, Davis explores 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, work... Read more
Taking readers inside the burlesque houses of Depression-era America, Davis explores 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 on a remembered tradition of comedy bits that circulated orally. Less

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File size9.02 X 5.98 X 0.63 in
Print pages288
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date January 8, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781137378729

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