Langer and others, the author evaluates American vaudeville as a symbolic manifestation of basic values shared by the American people during the period 1885-1930. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study.
American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment.
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