Bøger af David Monod

Vaudeville was America's most popular commercial amusement from the mid-1890s to the First World War. Telling the story of this pioneering art form's rise and decline, David Monod looks through the apparent carnival of vaudeville performance and asks: what made the theater so popular and transformative?

A study of the attempted ""denazification"" of German music by the Music Control Branch of the Information Control Division of Military Government. Monod argues that the long-term effects are greater than has been recognized, as German officials regained control and limited their involvement in artistic life while promoting ""new"" (anti-Nazi) music.

Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasure offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated.