英['vɔːdəvɪl]美['vɔːdəvɪl]
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Vaudeville is a type of entertainment that mixes comedy and music in a variety show.
Originally, a vaudeville was a popular song satirizing current events. Eventually, it came to mean a type of variety show that mixed comedy and music. Vaudeville, or “music hall,” was popular between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Vaudeville performers were multi-talented, because they might have to tell a joke one minute, dance the next, and then sing. The word vaudeville comes from the French phrase voix de ville, “voice of the city.”
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据传,15世纪时在法国诺曼底有位漂洗工(fuller)名叫巴斯兰(Olivier Basselin),创作了许多讽刺戏谑的饮酒歌,在当地广受欢迎。他工作的地方是一个名为Vau de Vire的峡谷,因此他所编写的歌便被称为chanson du Vau de Vire'song of the valley of the Vire'(维尔山谷之歌)。这类歌曲曾经在法国风靡一时,后来被简称为Vau de Vire,而且渐渐地和另一类歌曲voix de ville(都市之声)弄混,进而演变为vau de ville,最后又合为一个词vaudeville。=17世纪以后vaudeville被带进了巴黎的剧院,常常穿插在喜剧、哑剧等的演出中。18世纪时英语吸收了该词,起初用以指“通俗歌曲”。到了19世纪,美国人借用了vaudeville来指英国人所说的variety,即“歌舞杂耍表演”。从19世纪晚期至20世纪50年代vaudeville这一轻松欢快的娱乐形式风行全美国,在大城市和新开垦的边远地区尤为流行。它包括10至15个互不相关的单独表演节目,其中有魔术、杂技、喜剧、驯兽、耍把戏、歌舞等。许多著名的喜剧明星和演员一开始都从事过vaudeville表演。来自古法语ranson,赎金,救赎,来自(缩写自)拉丁语redemptionem,拯救,救赎,词源同redeem,redemption拼写比较custom,来自(缩写自)拉丁语consuetudinem.