Popular Entertainment

Select List of Sources on Popular Entertainment 1998 - 2001
Supplement to A Checklist of Representative Books
Published Primarily in the United States
Since l977

Compiled by Don B. Wilmeth

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• Adams, Rachel Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2001.
• Anderson, Ann. Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2000.
• Aron, Cindy S. Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States. New York/Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.
• Auerbach, Jeffrey A. The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1999.

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• Bailey, Peter. Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Balzer, Richard. Peepshows: A Visual History. NY: Abrahs, 1998.
• Banes, Sally. Subversive Expectations: Performance Art and Paratheater in New York 1976-85. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan, 1998.
• Banet-Weiser, Sarah. Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity. Berkeley: U of California Press,1999.
• Barana, Lily. Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America. NY: Hyperion, 2001.
• Beachum, Richard C. Spectacle Entertainment of Early Imperial Rome. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999.
• Bennett, David. Roller Coaster: Wooden and Steel Coasters, Twisters, and Corkscrews. Edison, NJ: Chartwell, 1998.
• Blake, Jody. Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris,1908-1930. University Park: Penn State University, 1999.
• Block, Geoffrey. Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim. NY: Oxford UP, 1997.
• Bondeson, Jan. A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities. NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999 (Cornell UP, 1997).
• Bondeson, Jan.The Two-Headed Boy and other Medical Marvels. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2000.
• Boorsch, Suzanne. Fireworks! Four Centuries of Pyrotechnics in Prints & Drawings (exhibit catalogue). NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
• Brouws, Jeff (photos) & Bruce Caron (text). Inside the Live Reptile Tent: The Twilight World of the Carnival Midway. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001.
• Brown, Phil. Catskill Culture: A Mountain Rat's Memories of the Great Jewish Resort Area. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1998.

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• Cameron, David Kerr. The English Fair. Gloucestershire, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1998.
• Cameron, David Kerr. London's Pleasures: From Restoration to Regency.UK: Sutton Publishing, 2001.
• Carlyon, David. Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of. NY: PublicAffairs, 2001.
• Carter, Robert A. Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend. NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
• Chilton, Meredith. Harlequin Unmasked: The Commedia Dell' Arte and Porcelain Sculture. New Haven: Yale UP, 2001.
• Cohen-Cruz, Jan. Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology. London/NY: Routledge, 1998.
• Connor, Steven. Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000

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• Dahlinger, Fred, Jr. Trains of the Circus 1872-1956. Baraboo, WI: Circus World Museum; Hudson, WI: Iconografix, 2000.
• Dahlinger, Fred, Jr. and Stuart Thayer. Badger State Showmen: A History of Wisconsin's Circus Heritage. Baraboo, WI: Circus World Museum/Sesquicentennial Circus Publications, 1998.
• Davis, Lee. Scandals and Follies: The Rise and Fall of the Great Broadway Revues. NY: Limelight, 1999.
• Deloria, Philip J. Playing Indian. New Haven: Yale UP, 1998.
• Dizikes, John. Yankee Doodle Dandy: The Life and Times of Tod Sloan. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.

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• Fields, Armond. Eddie Foy: A Biography of the Early Popular Stage Comedian. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999.
• ___________ . Lillian Russell: A Biography of "America's Beauty." Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999.
• Fish, Charles. Blue Ribbons and Burlesque: A Book of Country Fairs. Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press, 1998.
• Frega, Donnalee. Women of Illusion: A Circus Family's Story. NY: Palgrave (St. Martin's), 2001.

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G

• Gallop, Alan. Buffalo Bill's British Wild West. Stroud, Gloucershire, UK: Sutton, 2001.
• George-Graves, Nadine. The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville. The Whitman Sisters ands the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900-1940. NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
• Gillies, Midge. Marie Lloyd: The One and Only. London: Victor Gollancz, 1999.
• Glenn, Susan A. Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000.
• Gottschild, Brenda Dixon. Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era. NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
• Gustafson, Donna, et al. Images from the World Between: The Circus in 20th Century American Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/American Federation of Arts, 2001.

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• Harding, Les. Elephant Story: Jumbo and P.T. Barnum Under the Big Top. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2000.
• Heller, Alfred. World's Fairs and the End of Progress: An Insider's View. Corte Madera, CA: World's Fair, 1999.
• Hiaasen, Carl. Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World. New York: Ballantine, 1998.
• Hill, Constance Valis. Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers. NY: Oxford UP, 2000.

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J

• Jasen, David A. and Gene Jones. Spreadin' Rhythm Around. Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930. NY: Schrimer Books, 1998.
• Jay, Ricky. Jay's Journal of Anomalies. NY: Farrar Straus snd Giroux, 2001.

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K

• Kasson, John F. Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man. NY: Hill &Wang, 2001.
• Kasson, Joy S. Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History. NY: Hill and Wang, 2000.
• Kattwinkel, Susan, ed. Tony Pastor Presents; Afterpieces from the Vaudeville Stage. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
• Kibler, M. Alison. Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural History in American Vaudeville. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press, 1999.
• Kilgarriff, Michael. Grace, Beauty and Banjos: Peculiar Lives and Strange Times of Music Hall and Variety Artistes. London: Oberon Books, 1998.
• Knopf, Robert. The Theatre and Cinema of Buster Keaton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1999.

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• Lainsbury, Andrew. Once Upon an American Dream. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
• Latham, Angela J. Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s. Hanover: University Press of New England (Wesleyan UP), 2000.
• Lawner, Lynne. Harlequin on the Moon: Commedia dell' Arte and the Visual Arts. NY: Abrams, 1998.
• Lewis, Rob and Ryan Young. Rhode Island Amusement Parks. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1998.
• Lhamon, W.T., Jr. Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998.
• Liepe-Levinson, Katherine. Strip Show: Performance of Gender and Desire. New York/London: Routledge, 2002.
• Limon, John. Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2000.
• Lorant, Terry and Jon Carroll. The Pickle Family Circus. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1986.
• Lowry, Ed, with Charlie Fox. Ed. Paul M. Levitt. Joe Frisco: Comic, Jazz Dancer, and Railbird. Carbondale and Edwardswille: Southern Illinois UP, 1999.
• Lust, Annette. From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond: Mimes, Actors, Pierrots, and Clowns--A Chronicle. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1999.

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M

• McBrien, William. Cole Porter: A Biography. NY: Knopf, 1998.
• McCormick, John and Bennie Pratasik. Popular puppet theatre in Europe, 1800-1914. Cambridge/NY: CUP, 1998.
• McKinven, John A. The Hanlon Brothers: Their Amazing Acrobatics, Pantomimes, and Stage Spectacles. Glenwood, IL: David Mayer Magic Books, 1998.
• Mahar, William J. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture. Urbana: U Illinois Press, 1999.
• Martell, Joanne. Millie-Christine: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 2000.
• Mattie, Erik. World's Fairs. Phaidon; Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.
• Mazer, Sharon. Professional Wrestling. Sport and Spectacle. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.
• Melnick, Jeffrey. A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999.
• Mizejewski, Linda. Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema. Durham/London: Duke University Press, 1999.
• Mordden, Ethan. Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s. NY: Oxford, 1998.
• _______________. Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s. NY: Oxford, 1999.
• Morley, Sheridan and Ruth Leon. Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh. NY: Back Stage Books (Watson-Guptill), 1998.
• Mullenix, Elizabeth Reitz. Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage. NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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• Nelson, Derek. The American State Fair. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks Interntional, 1999.

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• Oberdeck, Kathryn J. The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
• O'Brien, Tim. The Amusement Park Guide. Chester, CT: Globe Pequot, 1991; 2nd ed. 1997; 3rd ed., Old Saybrook, CT, 1999.
• O'Nan, Stewart. The Circus Fire: A True Story. NY: Doubleday, 2000.
• Orenstein, Claudia. Festive Revolutions. The Politics of Popular Theater and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

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P

• Papa, Carrie. The Carousel Keepers: An Oral History of American Carousels. Granville, OH: McDonald & Woodward, 1998.
• Payne-Carter, David. Gower Champion: Dance and American Musical Theatre. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,1999.
• Pertwee, Bill. Beside the Seaside: A Celebration of 100 Years of Seaside Entertainment. London: Collins & Brown, 1999.
• Pick, Daniel. Svengali's Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.
• Potter, D.S. and D.J. Mattingly. Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 1999.

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• Reddin, Paul. Wild West Shows. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois, 1999.
• Register, Woody. The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements. NY: Oxford UP, 2001.
• Reiss, Benjamin. The Showman [Barnum] and the Slave [Joice Heth]. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001..
• Reynolds, Robert. Roller Coasters, Flumes & Flying Saucers. Jupiter, FL: Northern Lights, 1999.
• Riley, Glenda. The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley. Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1994.
• Rinehart, Robert E. Players All: Performances in Contemporary Sport. Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1998.
• Robertson, Jennifer. Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1998.
• Rothe, Len. The Bare Truth: Stars of Burlesque from the 40s and 50s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publisher, 1998.
• Rudin, John and Olly Crick. Commedia dell' Arte: A Handbook for Troupes. NY/London: Routledge, 2001.
• Rydell, Robert W. et al. Fair America: World's Fairs in the United States. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

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• Samuelson, Dale w/ Wendy Yegoinants. The American Amusement Park. St. Paul, MN: MBI Publishing, 2001.
• Saxon, A.H., comp. Circus Language: A Glossary.Fairfield, CT: Jumbo's Press, 2000.
• Sayers, Isabelle S. Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West. New York: Dover, l98l.
• Schechter, Joel. The Congress of Clowns and other Russian Circus Acts. San Francisco: Kropotkin Club of San Francisco, 1998.
• ____________. The Pickle Clowns: New American Circus Comedy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2001.
• Senelick, Laurence.The Age and Stage of George L. Fox, 1825-1877. Expanded ed. Iowa City: U of Iowa Press, 1999.
• ________________ . The Changing Room: Sex, drag and theatre. London and NY: Routledge, 2000.
• Slout, William L. A Royal Coupling: The Historic Marriage of Barnum and Bailey. San Bernadino, CA: An Emeritus Enterprise Book, 2000.
• Smith, Sharon L. and Stephen J. Fletcher. Life in a Three-Ring Circus (posters). Indiana Historical Society, 2001.
• Speaight, George. The Juvenile Drama: A Union Catalogue. London: Society for Theatre Research, 1999.
• Stafford, Barbara Maria and Frances Terpak. Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2001.
• Stein, Harvey. Coney Island. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.
• Stencell, A.W. Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind. Toronto: ECW Press, 1999.
• Steyn, Mark. Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now. NY: Routledge, 1999.
• Swartz, Mark Evan. Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Stage and Screen to 1939. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2000.

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• Thayer, Stuart. and William L. Slout. Grand Entr e: The Birth of the Greatest Show on Earth, 1870-1875. San Bernadino, CA: Borg Press, 1998.

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• Vallillo, Stephen and Maryann Chach, eds. Pleasure Gardens. Vol. 21 of Performing Arts Resources. New York: Theatre Library Association, 1998.

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• Waldron, Daniel, et al. Blackstone, a Magician's LIfe: The World and Magic Show of Harry Blackstone. 1885-1965. Glenwood, IL: Meyerbooks, 1999.
• Wallis, Michael. The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
• Watts, Jill. Mae West: An Icon in Black and White. NY: Oxford UP, 2001.
• Whisenhunt, Donald W. Tent Show: Arthur Names and His "Famous" Players. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.
• Wilmeth, Don B. and Christopher Bigsby, ed. The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol. I: Beginnings to 1870; Vol. II: 1870-1945. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 1998, 1999.
• Wilson, R.L. Wilson. Buffalo Bill's Wild West: An American Legend. NY: Random House, 1998.

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