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- Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...f Eddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she entered [[vaudeville]] as a teen, gradually heading toward [[New York ...
7: ...s. Already a star, she performed in a skirt made only of [[banana]]s, often accompanied by her pet [[l...
17: ...enormous staff in a castle in France. (Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an inci... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ...was the only asset. That same year, she made her only film appearance, starring in a two-reeler based ...
17: ...dence, Hammond never recanted his story. It was only when biographer [[Chris Albertson]]'s [[1972]] b...
21: ...ris Albertson's book) confirmed, it is extremely unlikely that a black ambulance driver would have tak... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
11: ...on company, so the Arnazes toured the road in a [[vaudeville]] act with Lucille as the zany housewife wanting ...
18: ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' was not only a star vehicle for Lucille Ball, but a way for h...
56: ...ed... with the inevitable hilarious result, made only the more funny by the alliterative, tongue twist...
73: ...w.lucilledesireeball.com/index.html Lucille Ball Online] - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: ...tes]], was an actress, singer and major star of [[vaudeville]].
8: ...and developed her career into that of a leading [[vaudeville]] performer with an act known at the time as "Coo... - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
7: ...[Theater]]. Tony Pastor, known as the father of [[vaudeville]], was responsible for some of the biggest stars ...
9: Not only was her [[voice]] celebrated but her beauty caus... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
13: *Reeds sound only if air flows in one direction
27: ... It had free reeds, but no keyboard, and sounded only in one direction.
28: ...cale (music)|scale]], and consequently played in only one key [and its related keys]. Similar accordio...
37: ... was the first piano accordionist to perform in [[Vaudeville]]. He is credited with making the first recording...
54: ...hird to eighth column in the picture above), and only has Fundamental Bass and major chords - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
3: It is commonly associated with [[music]] from [[Hawaii]] where ...
11: ...p]] below the B). This tuning was very popular in vaudeville in the days before amplification. The tension an...
36: * [[Dan Scanlan]] ("Cool Hand Uke")
73: [[nl:Ukelele]] - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
3: ... terms with the vast human cost of the conflict. Unlike after [[World War II]], the United States did ...
17: ...llion [[Model T]]. In all of Canada, there were only about 300,000 vehicles registered in [[1918]], b...
43: ...man who rebels against his safe life and family, only to realize that the young generation is as hypoc...
66: ...|Tap dancing]] performances entertained people in vaudeville theaters, out in the streets or accompanying band...
70: ...ance and other dances of the era throughout the [[Vaudeville]] hall circuit across the U.S. - Richmond, Virginia (20197 bytes)
44: ...prevented river boats from traveling any further inland.
59: ...was defeated by [[Douglas Wilder]] the first and only black governor.
170: ...vated Main Street Station near downtown Richmond only receives trains bound for [[Newport News, Virgin...
179: * [[Henry Creamer]], an American Vaudeville song lyricist of the early 20th century. - Film (18911 bytes)
4: ...picture shows'', ''flicks'' — and most commonly ''movies''. Academics and the English-speaking ...
8: ...mportant [[art]] form; films entertain, educate, enlighten and inspire audiences. The visual elements ...
22: ... majority of the audience for commercial films. Only in rare exceptions is black-and-white film now u...
26: ... became a separate industry that overshadowed the vaudeville world. Dedicated [[movie theater|theaters]] and ...
38: ...sh;see also [[videodisc]]), and [[Internet]] [[download]]s may be available and have started to become... - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
28: ... [[Steven Curtis Chapman]] were artists that not only appealed to their Christian fans, but also found...
83: ...sive and confusing genre classification that can only be truly defined by flagbearers and flagburners ...
93: ...ies of melodic music include [[music hall]] and [[vaudeville]], which, along with the [[ballad]], grew out of ...
111: ... be applied without any controversy. Perhaps the only bands ''always'' considered "punk" are the [[Lis...
121: [[Hip hop music]] (also commonly referred to as "rap") can be seen as a subgenre ... - Music history of the United States (35788 bytes)
35: ...rew on the blues to create tales of the poor and unlucky (Collins, 11), while the Carters preferred mo...
56: ...popular, comic [[musical theater]], such as the [[vaudeville]] tradition and composers and writers like [[Osca...
113: ...tones]] and [[The Who]] dominated the charts and only a few American bands, such as [[The Beach Boys]]... - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
2: ...eater]] may be the most popular form: it is certainly the most colorful, and choreographed motions pio...
17: ...shman]]. Many theater owners, such as [[William Dunlap]] and [[Thomas Abthorpe Cooper]], similarly bec...
19: Most cities only had a single theater. Productions were much more...
21: [[Shakespeare]] was the most commonly performed playwright, along with other European ...
30: ...its theatrical tradition in the 19th century, if only partially. In the North, theater flourished as a... - Opera (25153 bytes)
11: ...ve accompaniment in the same opera, the continuo-only practice was referred to as "secco" (dry) recita...
13: ...mmer Night's Dream]]''; this work is almost certainly the most frequently performed of the genre in a ...
22: ... active supporting structure. From this, it was only a small step to fully-fledged monody. All such ...
27: ...(at this time, of course, the audience consisted only of invited nobles and courtiers) participation i...
47: ...this time become common. Choruses, indeed, were only just now coming back into opera of any style aft...
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