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Vaudeville was a genre of a variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. so much so that author and theater historian Trav S.D. dubbed vaudeville "the heart of American show business" during that period.[1] It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque. Vaudeville became one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America, defining an entertainment era. Each evening's bill of performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts. Types of acts included (among others) musicians (both classical and popular), dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and short movies.
Vaudeville was a genre of a variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. so much so that author and theater historian Trav S.D. dubbed vaudeville "the heart of American show business" during that period.[1] It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque. Vaudeville became one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America, defining an entertainment era. Each evening's bill of performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts. Types of acts included (among others) musicians (both classical and popular), dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and short movies.
Many sources say that no one knows how the name "vaudeville" originated. That's not true - "Vaudeville" was a word used by French performers in the early 18th century to describe popular songs performed to satirize the events of the day.
In France in the 1400s, music was evolving and its forms were being codified by scholars. Around that time, the town of Vire (the capital of Calvados, in Normandy) became known as a rich source of popular drinking songs and songs with barbed satire and topical humor. Eventually any such song was referred to as "un chanson du Vau de Vire," or "a song of the valley of Vire." The clipped form "vaudevire" was in common use by 1500.
As this word became part of the vocabulary, it was conflated with the name of another style of song, "voix de ville," or "voice of the city" (in the dual senses of "urban sophistication" and "talk of the town"), which referred to songs of courtly love. In 1573 a collection of these songs appeared called Premier livre de chansons en forme de vau de ville. By 1600 the combined form "vaudeville" was understood all over France to mean "a light, entertaining song, a ditty." During the late 1600s and early 1700s, "com�dies-vaudeville", shows setting new lyrics to the old familiar vaudeville tunes, became popular.
The word "vaudeville" first appeared in English in a 1611 dictionary defining it as "a country ballade, or song." In a 1739 letter Horace Walpole referred to "the vaudevilles or ballads which they sing at the comedy after their 'petites pi�ces'." The Th��tre de Vaudeville opened in Paris in 1792, and the word vaudeville gradually came to refer to the shows themselves rather than to the songs in the shows. English music halls began calling their light, popular variety shows "vaudeville," using the word in the sense we know today
In France in the 1400s, music was evolving and its forms were being codified by scholars. Around that time, the town of Vire (the capital of Calvados, in Normandy) became known as a rich source of popular drinking songs and songs with barbed satire and topical humor. Eventually any such song was referred to as "un chanson du Vau de Vire," or "a song of the valley of Vire." The clipped form "vaudevire" was in common use by 1500.
As this word became part of the vocabulary, it was conflated with the name of another style of song, "voix de ville," or "voice of the city" (in the dual senses of "urban sophistication" and "talk of the town"), which referred to songs of courtly love. In 1573 a collection of these songs appeared called Premier livre de chansons en forme de vau de ville. By 1600 the combined form "vaudeville" was understood all over France to mean "a light, entertaining song, a ditty." During the late 1600s and early 1700s, "com�dies-vaudeville", shows setting new lyrics to the old familiar vaudeville tunes, became popular.
The word "vaudeville" first appeared in English in a 1611 dictionary defining it as "a country ballade, or song." In a 1739 letter Horace Walpole referred to "the vaudevilles or ballads which they sing at the comedy after their 'petites pi�ces'." The Th��tre de Vaudeville opened in Paris in 1792, and the word vaudeville gradually came to refer to the shows themselves rather than to the songs in the shows. English music halls began calling their light, popular variety shows "vaudeville," using the word in the sense we know today
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