Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a uniquely American entertainment phenomenon. In the beginning, vaudeville was simply a more polite version of dance-hall entertainment. It was designed to attract audiences from the middle class. The upper class attended the opera and the ballet, while the middle class attended vaudeville.

Vaudeville was a mixed bag of entertainment genres. A single vaudeville show might include musicians (both classical and popular), dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, and the celebrities of the day.

Over time, vaudeville developed into a show that traveled circuits and performed in varying-size halls. Standardized bookings became common, and a large pool of skilled performers became available. The public loved it! There was a huge and loyal national following of vaudeville.

The capital of big-time vaudeville was New York City's Palace Theater. "The Palace" was the slang that denoted the place. In entertainment circles, if you had "played the Palace," that meant that you had arrived at the pinnacle of an entertainment career.

The Palace Theater was built by Martin Beck in 1913, and it was operated by B.F. Keith. "The Palace" featured a bill novelty acts, national celebrities, and the acknowledged masters of vaudeville performance like the comedian and trick roper Will Rogers.

The movies are what finally did in vaudeville. Movie admission was cheap, and the medium was new enough to be exciting. Even the Palace quit vaudeville in favor of film. Many very famous Vaudeville entertainers like W.C. Fields, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, Edgar Bergen, and Jack Benny parlayed their vaudeville success into successful careers in the movies — the pay was better, and you only had to "get it right" once.

Today vaudeville is remembered fondly, and its place in entertainment history is solid.

Talk Shows

People have opinions. They have opinions about everything. People like to share those opinions with the world. People also like to know what other people's opinions are. Voila! TALK SHOW!

Television talk shows can be divided in at least two different ways. They can be divided by time period in which they are shown, and they can be divided by subject matter as well.

They can be divided according to their time slots. There are morning talk shows ("Good Morning America," "The Early Show," "The Today Show," etc.), afternoon talk shows ("Oprah," "Dr. Phil," etc.) and there are late-night talk shows ("The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Late Show with David Letterman," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," etc.) The subject matter of talk shows is often dictated by the time slot. For example, morning talk shows usually discuss news, weather, and interesting happenings, while afternoon talk shows are more apt to discuss relationships and entertainment personalities. Late-night topics are usually much racier in nature than talk shows in other time slots.

Talk shows can be divided by their subject matter; tabloid talk shows, politically based talk shows, sports-based talk shows, and others. Legal matter talk shows are big right now. Tabloid talk shows are most often aired during late morning hours or early afternoon on weekdays. Sports-based talk shows are most often aired on weekends during daylight hours. Sunday mornings are reserved for politically based talk shows. Talk shows based on legal matters are often aired during the early evening hours, as well.

Generally all talk shows feature a host who guides the discussion, questions guests, takes calls, opens and reads mail, etc. Sometimes the talk show "host" consists of a panel of several people with varying views on the same topic. Sometimes talk shows degenerate into shouting matches between panel members.

The Soaps

Do you recognize these television program titles: "Guiding Light," "As the World Turns," "General Hospital," "Days of our Lives," "One Life to Live," "All My Children," and "The Young and the Restless"? If you don't, you obviously have never turned on the television set between noon and four o'clock. These are the "soaps."

This isn't a complete list of the soaps by any means, but all of the titles on the above list have been on television every weekday afternoon with very few exceptions for the last 30 years — and they are STILL being aired.

"Guiding Light" began as a "soap opera" on radio in 1937. That's a very long time before any of us were even born. It is still aired every afternoon on television, and millions of people tune in. The networks know that soaps are profitable, and merchants know that advertising on soaps is profitable. That's a marriage made in commerce heaven.

The soap opera, or "soap," is an ongoing story. The story lines always revolve around personal relationships and/or family life with a good dose of sexual interaction and innuendo between characters. Some soaps have used several months of story line to determine who the "real father" is. Loss of memory is common. Extramarital affairs, long-lost siblings, and heretofore-unknown twins are all common story lines in the soaps.

Stunt men don't make any money from soap filming. Car wrecks, falls down mountain sides, plane crashes, murder, and mayhem are all part of the plots of the soaps, but rather than the events being shown on television screens, they are discussed in the dialogue.

The direction of the story line determines whether characters will be punished for crimes like murder and rape or go free. Reality has little to do with the soap storylines, but that doesn't keep millions and millions of women glued to their television sets every weekday afternoon all around the world.

Are There Really Free Music Magazines?

You have no doubt read many different music magazines in print form and online but did you know that you can really find free music magazines. The free music magazines available are not just local newsprint copies of a magazine made by high school kids, but they are real magazines that you can read for free. Rolling Stone magazine is one very popular music magazine and is available online for free. The magazine is filled with reviews, news articles, interviews, and so much more related to music and your favorite artists. You will also find news in the music magazines other than just music news, so it is like a one stop shop for news and music news.

You can learn a lot about what is hot news right now by reading magazines that are usually thought of as strictly about music. For instance, if you want to know about certain films popular at the time or even news concerning politics you can unusually find all of this in many free music magazines. You may think that something must not be very good if it is available for free, but this is not the case when you are discussing free music magazines. The magazine is still available in print form so they can make money through selling subscriptions and through advertisements on the free magazine sites.

With many recent occurrences such as people publishing books entirely online and releasing albums online, it is no wonder there would be free music magazines available online. You can get previews for movies coming out soon or even order a pizza electronically, so why not read magazines on your computer too. You can get reviews of movies and albums from many free music magazines as well as get previews for things that will be coming out soon. The more people start doing things electronically the more of a need there will be for things available online instead of just in print form.

When magazines have all information available electronically it is easy for them to offer it free because there is no cost for printing in paper or ink. When it costs you nothing to make a magazine available to the public it is not such a crazy idea that it would be available to you for free. When you are trying to decide which magazines to subscribe to, remember that there are plenty of free music magazines that are available to you right now that you will never ever have to throw them away when you finish reading them.

How to Locate Education Magazines for Music Teachers

 There are a variety of education magazines for music teachers available for teachers or students of music who will wish to teach one day. Some of them are very easy to spot because they are called things such as Dance Teacher Magazine or Music and Arts Education Magazine. You will find that if you subscribe to any of the many education magazines for music teachers you will get ideas for helping you to better teach music or different ideas on products to purchase to help you along.

These types of magazines are also very helpful to keep you abreast of conferences for music teachers that will be coming to your area as well as opportunities for concerts that students could attend and so much more. The education magazines for music teachers you will find today are very valuable resources for today’s music teachers on any level from elementary school to college professors, because no matter how much you know it is always good to learn some new things from other people’s ideas. There are also guides in these magazines to help you learn to teach people in different ways because not all children learn in the same way or at the same pace.

When you are trying to decide just exactly which of the many education magazines for music teachers to subscribe to you should consider what you want from an educational magazine and find out a few of them that fit the criteria you selected. If you simply want help with teaching music, articles or maybe interviews with music teachers will help you along or if you need ideas for teaching then you need to find out what all each magazine offers and go from there. Magazines can be an excellent source for new materials to keep class interesting year after year. Children love to try new exciting things so you should keep learning new things you can teach the students more and more. The magazines available that are education magazines for music teachers are available in both online magazines and printed magazine forms.

 For those of us who can’t let go and need to be holding a magazine to read one then you can stick with having your magazine delivered to your mailbox, but for the rest of us who are addicted to the computer we will move on to e zines. Getting your magazines electronically has many advantages including there is no trash to throw away or recycle and you can take them anywhere without any effort because anywhere you carry your computer you can read an online magazine.