@article{455769,
      author = {Davis, Andrew,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/455769},
      title = {Baggy pants comedy : burlesque and the oral tradition /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      recid = {455769},
      pages = {xiii, 288 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2011},
}