Baggy pants comedy : burlesque and the oral tradition / Andrew Davis.
2011
PN1942 .D275 2011 (Mapit)
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Baggy pants comedy : burlesque and the oral tradition / Andrew Davis.
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Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780230116795
0230116795
0230116795
Publication Details
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PN1942 .D275 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
792.7/60973
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269) and index.
Series
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
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Table of Contents
"Who's on first" and the tradition of burlesque comedy
The oral tradition and the popular stage
The pressures of stock burlesque
The cast and characters
Learning the business
Bits and blackouts
Scenarios, scripts, and schemas
Double entendre humor
Flirtations
Trickery
Brutality
Burlesques
Body scenes
The appeal of burlesque comedy.
The oral tradition and the popular stage
The pressures of stock burlesque
The cast and characters
Learning the business
Bits and blackouts
Scenarios, scripts, and schemas
Double entendre humor
Flirtations
Trickery
Brutality
Burlesques
Body scenes
The appeal of burlesque comedy.