Robert W Snyder
Robert W. Snyder is Associate Professor of Journalism and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of Transit Talk: New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories and The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York and coauthor of Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York . Formerly the editor of Media Studies Journal , he also worked at Newsday , the journalism review More , the Tarrytown Daily News , and Channel 13/WNET, the...See more
Robert W. Snyder is Associate Professor of Journalism and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of Transit Talk: New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories and The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York and coauthor of Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York . Formerly the editor of Media Studies Journal , he also worked at Newsday , the journalism review More , the Tarrytown Daily News , and Channel 13/WNET, the public television station of New York City. Snyder served as a consultant and interview source for National Public Radio's Sonic Memorial project on September 11 and the World Trade Center, which won the Peabody Award. See less
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Robert W Snyder book reviews
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The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York
A scholarly overview
This is a well-researched work on the vaudeville scene in NYC, and a social history at the same time. Most of what I've been reading about vaudeville hinges on reminiscences and memoirs, many of ... Read More