Brooks McNamara is Professor of Performance Studies, Emeritus, in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and Director, Emeritus of the Shubert Archive. He is a specialist in the history of popular entertainment and has published widely in the area including The American Playhouse in the Eighteenth Century and in, among others, American Popular Entertainments, as editor.
List of illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue: sources of the concert saloon and its shows
1. Where the devil's work is done: New York City concert saloons during the Civil War era
2. Changes in direction: the concert saloon after the war
3. Concert-saloon acts
4. Concert saloons: spaces and equipment
5. Employees and patrons of the concert saloon
6. Related forms
Epilogue
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
