Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition
by A. Davis
2020-12-30 09:08:28
Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition
by A. Davis
2020-12-30 09:08:28
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...
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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.
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