![]() ![]() By the 19th century, owning a piano was both a status symbol and a way to make your own kind of music at home, with family and friends. In the Middle Ages, for example, people found good music in church or went to a beer hall to hear a wandering minstrel. Today, with every kind of music and show available instantly at the touch of a button, it’s easy to forget that for all of human history, until about 1900, all entertainment was live. What was vaudeville? The word is French for a kind of comic song, but in North America it came to mean theatrical presentations of unrelated acts-singers, comics, dancers, magicians-and it dominated our popular culture for half a century, roughly 1880–1930. ![]() What do Houdini, Bob Hope, and Don the Talking Dog have in common? They all started out in vaudeville. ![]()
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