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By Douglas Edward Fraser

ISBN-10: 1508976945

ISBN-13: 9781508976943

This booklet is stuffed with secrets and techniques, surprises and delights. you're brought to, and develop into rather intimate with, the construction of every little thing that makes up leisure and the actions that introduced smiles to the faces of the US. protecting the roots of jazz, vaudeville, burlesque, significant bands, silent video clips, ragtime, tv, naked knuckle prize fights, minstrel indicates, circus and carnivals, bebop, drugs indicates, jug bands, bicycles, musicians’ medicinal drugs, radio, version –Ts, paddle wheelers, curler skates, the blues, barnstorming, gramophones, dancing, barbershop quartets, degree microphones, Tin Pan Alley, washboard bands, swing, and wild west exhibits. plenty of pictures and perception to topics that you simply suggestion you knew about.

Douglas Edward Fraser is a musicologist with a life of wisdom. He comprises the various own and kinfolk tales which were chronicled from the studies of 3 generations entertainers that make up his kin. it is a publication like no different and it's been written to entertain and enlighten the readers that benefit from the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

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