Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition

by Andrew Davis

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0230116795

ISBN13:9780230116795

Release Date:November 2011

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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