A second speculation is that it comes from the 15th-century songs on satire by poet Olivier Basselin, "Vau de Vire". The origin of the term is obscure but often explained as being derived from the French expression voix de ville ("voice of the city"). Called "the heart of American show business", vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades. Vaudeville developed from many sources, also including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary American burlesque.
A vaudeville performer is often referred to as a "vaudevillian". Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, ventriloquists, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, clowns, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and films.
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In some ways analogous to music hall from Victorian Britain, a typical North American vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. It became popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s, but the idea of vaudeville's theatre changed radically from its French antecedent.
A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs or ballets. Vaudeville ( / ˈ v ɔː d( ə) v ɪ l, ˈ v oʊ-/ French: ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A promotional poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles (1894), showing dancers, clowns, trapeze artists, costumed dog, singers and costumed actors
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