Staging Vaudeville for a Twenty-First-Century Audience
The transformative relationship between vaudeville performance practice and popular song is only one of the many subjects that can be studied using the database vaudeville america . org . Our hope , in making the material accessible to researchers , is that it will inspire new research into popular entertainment , audience sensibilities , and American tastes . Mobilizing knowledge , and making it widely accessible , are mandates of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada which generously funded the vaudeville america . org database . Its funding supported the research of a dozen contributors to the website . We hope the existence of this new research tool will encourage researchers to ask their own questions and explore the links between the tens of thousands of reviews that are now available . Whether your interest lies in locating an ancestor who performed in vaudeville , documenting the history of roller-skating or stand-up comedy , or exploring gender or ethnicity on stage , we hope you will find a useful resource in
vaudevilleamerica . org .
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1 BF Keith , “ Selecting Vaudeville Acts ,” New York Times , 10 January 1904 .
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