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Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson

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...Né Luther “Bojangles” Robinson was born in Richmond, Virginia, on May 25, 1878. After the loss of both his parents in 1885, Luther and his brother Bill were raised by their grandmother. At the age of five, Luther began dancing for a living....

Vaudeville, African-American

Paul Oliver

Paul Oliver is a Fellow of Oxford Brookes University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...African Americans were rarely employed in early vaudeville but they were often depicted there, the minstrel shows having been increasingly absorbed into the new idiom. When black entertainers were admitted on the vaudeville stage...

Moby, Minstrelsy and Melville

Richard Osborne

Richard Osborne is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Middlesex University, UK. Prior to becoming a lecturer he worked in record shops, held various posts at PRS for Music, and co-managed a pub. He is the author of Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record (2012). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Mute Records : Artists, Business, History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...In 1999 Mute Records released Play by Moby. Daniel Miller has admitted that the label was not in ‘great shape’ at this point and nor was Moby’s career (2017: 29). The performer had had chart success in the UK with his...

Burlesque

Gillian Rodger

Gillian Rodger

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...Burlesque is an English musical theater genre that transferred to the United States in the nineteenth century, where it grew into a varied and, for a time, commercially successful form with close links to other forms of popular theatrical...

Salt Lake City, UT

Michael Hicks

Michael Hicks

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IV : Locations: North America

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: city – 181,743 (2000); metropolitan area – 850,243 (2000) Salt Lake City is the hub of the Wasatch Front, the metropolitan corridor of Utah that runs from Ogden to Provo between the Wasatch...

African-American Musical Theater, 1890–

Thomas L. Riis

Thomas L. Riis

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...In the late nineteenth century African Americans began to create their own distinctive variants on the popular musical theater genres, established and developed by white Americans, in which they had hitherto participated to a limited...

Barbershop

Richard Mook

Richard Mook

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...Barbershop is a style of close harmony singing that originated in the eastern USA. It emerged in the late nineteenth century and drew on such precedents as European touring quartets, blackface minstrel quartets and African-American amateur...

Coon Song

Tim Wise

Tim Wise

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...Coon songs were one of many varieties of ethnic-themed comic songs popular in vaudeville and music theater in the United States from roughly the 1880s to the 1920s, the targeted ethnic minority in this case being African Americans. Coon...

Vaudeville

Gillian Rodger

Gillian Rodger

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...Vaudeville was a genre of musical theater that flourished in the United States and Canada during the last third of the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth century. Vaudeville presented a series of acts – dramatic...

Cincinnati, OH

Larry Nager

Larry Nager

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IV : Locations: North America

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 331,285 (2000) Cincinnati is located in the hills of southwestern Ohio, overlooking the Ohio River and northern Kentucky, some 300 miles (483 km) southeast of Chicago.Cincinnati was founded in 1788...