Prettiest Girl on Stage Is a Man

From the 1890s through the 1920s, vaudeville reigned as one of the most popular entertainment forms in urban America. In this lively and enlightening study, Kathleen B. Casey explores the ways in which the gender- and race-bending spectacles of vaudeville dramatized the economic, technological, social, and cultural upheaval that gripped the United States in the early twentieth century.