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Gebundene Ausgabe: 328 Seiten
Verlag: Faber & Faber (November 2005)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0571211925
ISBN-13: 978-0571211920
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 15,5 x 3,3 cm
Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 772.091 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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*Starred Review* Milton Berle once joked that vaudeville was dead and "TV was the box they buried it in." Trav S. D. takes issue with both forks of that quip, wittily arguing that vaudeville isn't dead and that TV is but one of the places where it, or at least a mutation of it, continues to thrive. He also points to the current resurgence of variety, burlesque, and vaudeville-like performers and shows on the theatrical fringes. Both performer and theater historian, he knows of what he speaks. His rich, well-researched history of American vaudeville from its roots in the 1880s onward is a rare enough feat made all the more startling by the wit, zest, and fresh eyes Trav S. D. brings to the subject. He succeeds in enlivening all facets of vaudeville history--not just the oft--recorded lives of performers on "the Road" but also how "the Road" itself was formed during the rise of the railroad and how different cabals of producers and managers dominated and eventually monopolized the business. He also discusses the social history of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American middle class in the context of explaining how vaudeville acts were "sanitized" to be "fit" for the whole family. He writes with the passion of an aficionado, which doesn't, however, keep him from a clear-eyed account of the dark side of the business: its cutthroat competition, nearly constant double-dealing, and sad legacy of racism. Jack Helbig
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"A delicious cultural history...The writing is as snappy as these troupers and headliners deserve. And the scholarship is high-class. Nothing reveals a people more clearly than what entertains them and how they define it." --The New York Times

"No Applause is a lively, vivid and evocative tumble through the rollicking age of American vaudeville. Trav S.D.'s thoroughly engaging book grabs you by the lapels and whisks you back in time to one of the most fascinating and important periods in show business history. " --David Isay public radio producer and creator of StoryCorps

"No Applause is a fabulous book worthy of its fabulous topic. Clever, thoughtful, and comprehensive, it is beautifully written and exhaustively researched, and it reminds us of the myriad ways in which vaudeville dominated urban America for half a century and more." --Kenneth T. Jackson, professor of history, Columbia University and editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City

"Trav S.D. has created an essential (and very funny) history of American popular entertainment, particularly for those of us trying to create popular entertainment today." --Greg Kotis, creator of Urinetown

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irreverant, funny and on the mark 7. Dezember 2005

Von Frank Cullen - Ver�ffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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"No Applause-Just Throw Money, or the Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" is as sassy as its title. As bold a writer as he is performer, Trav S.D.'s book is all the better for it. Critics have commented that it is amusing-and it is-very, but it also affords, within its 300 plus pages, a solid survey of vaudeville history from its roots through several stages of growth to its blossoming and institutional decline.

One of the book's greater strengths is the cultural context Trav S.D. provides without losing his story in academic meanderings. The marrying of high and low purpose in this book reflects vaudeville's eclectic (some might say indiscriminate) embrace of art forms, a formula that made it the most popular mass entertainment of its day--fit for both toffs and toughs--ladies and children invited.

One can quibble about several particulars-this is true of every book written about vaudeville, but Trav S.D. has captured the shape, size and feel of vaudeville by examining it as a business as well as an entertainment form peopled by beloved performers.

Trav S.D. is producer/performer with American Vaudeville Theatre and a writer whose work has appeared in various periodicals including The Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out New York, and Reason.

Frank Cullen, merican Vaudeville M useum, "fcullen'

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Loses Steam in the Final Third, but Well Worth the Time 6. M�rz 2006

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The whole book is informative and very, very funny, with the first third concentrating on the ancient history of vaudeville and its beginnings, the middle third concentrating on its heyday, and the final chapters dedicated to its decline. However, the text does contain some glaring errors with regard to Buster Keaton's life and abilities (probably owing to the author's unfortunate use of Marion Meade's atrocious "Cut to the Chase" as a resource). For the record, Buster Keaton was neither functionally illiterate nor abused. The final chapters are bogged down a bit with the author's own philosophy as to what is needed in vaudeville, rather than a straight telling of what has happened to it in the last 40 or 50 years. This is a shame, because the first two thirds of the book are uproariously funny and page-turningly readable, and I would have like to have seen this continue through to the conclusion. Even the acknowledgements are entertaining - not always the case.

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A Book Worthy of its Subject 1. Juli 2008

Von T. Berner - Ver�ffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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In the last five years, three unrelated books, the subject book, together with Seriously Funny by Gerard Nachman and Comedy at the Edge by Richard Zoglin, have been published which, together, comprise the history of American comedy since the American Civil War. All of them have their merits, but No Applause - Just Throw Money (NAJTM) is the best of them.

It is not just that vaudeville is broader than comedy alone and the vaudeville era was a lot more interesting in show business history than the periods that followed it. The other virtue to NAJTM is that, while the other books try to capture an age by induction - focusing on the lives of a handful of performers and drawing universal conclusions - NAJTM discusses the era and illustrates the author's points with references to individual performers. The result is that the uniqueness of each act, its independence and individuality is honored.

And unique and independent and individualistic they were! What a wonderful collection of oddballs, tyrants and crackpots and what a talented, original and creative bunch as well. As one surveys modern entertainment - the intellectual wasteland that comprises theater, television and, especially, American cinema today, one longs to slip into the Palace for just one day to see this bunch walk the boards one more time.

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