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Kijklust en sensatiezucht : een geschiedenis van revue en variété.
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ISBN: 9789085421573 Year: 2009 Publisher: Antwerpen Meulenhoff/Manteau


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The Shuberts and their Passing Shows
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ISBN: 0190219262 0190219246 0190219238 9780190219246 9780190219260 9780190219239 9780190219277 0190219270 0190219254 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York

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The Shubert name has been synonymous with Broadway for almost as long as Broadway entertainment itself. In 'The Shuberts and Their Passing Shows', author Jonas Westover investigates beyond the Shuberts' business empire into their early revues and the centrifugal role they played in developing American theatre as an art form.


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Blacks in blackface : a sourcebook on early black musical shows
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ISBN: 0810883511 9780810883512 9780810883505 0810883503 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lanham ; Toronto : Scarecrow Press, Inc.,

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Published in 1980, Blacks in Blackface was the first and most extensive book up to that time to deal exclusively with every aspect of all-Black musical comedies performed on the stage between 1910 and 1940. Sampson provides an unprecedented wealth of information on legitimate musical comedies, including show synopses, casts, songs, and production credits. Sampson also recounts the struggles of Black performers and producers to overcome the racial prejudice of white show owners, music publishers, and theatre managers and b


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Just One of the Boys : Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage
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ISBN: 0252050169 9780252050169 9780252041518 9780252083150 0252041518 9780252041518 0252083156 9780252083150 Year: 2018 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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Female-to-male crossdressing became all the rage in the variety shows of nineteenth century America, and began as the domain of mature actresses who desired to extend their careers. These women engaged in the kinds of raucous comedy acts usually reserved for men. Over time, as younger women entered the specialty, the comedy became less pointed, and came to center on the celebration of male leisure and fashion. Gillian M. Rodger uses the development of male impersonation from 1820 to 1920 to illuminate the history of the variety show. Exploding notions of high- and lowbrow entertainment, Rodger looks at how both performers and forms consistently expanded upward toward respectable "and richer" audiences. At the same time, she illuminates a lost theatrical world where women made fun of middle class restrictions even as they bumped up against rules imposed in part by audiences. Onstage, the actresses' changing performance styles reflected gender construction in the working class and shifts in class affiliation by parts of the audiences. Rodger observes how restrictive standards of femininity increasingly bound male impersonators as new gender constructions allowed women greater access to public space while tolerating less independent behavior from them.


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Body knowledge
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ISBN: 0199898014 0199369682 9780199898022 0199898022 9780199898015 9780199898039 0199898030 9780199369683 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York

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This book traces the deployment of intermedial aesthetics in the works of early twentieth-century female performers. By destabilizing medial and genre boundaries, these women created compelling and meaningful performances that negotiated turn-of-the-century American social and cultural issues.


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Soldiers of song : the Dumbells and other Canadian concert parties of the First World War
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ISBN: 9781554588824 1554588820 9781554588442 1554588448 9781554588831 1554588839 Year: 2012 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

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"The irreverent humour that inspired the likes of The Wayne and Shuster Hour and Monty Python was born in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells -- fighting soldiers who entertained at concert parties -- were central to that birth. Soldiers of Song tells their story. Lucky soldiers who could sing a song, perform a skit, or pass as a "lady," were taken from the line and put onstage for the benefit of their soldier-audiences. The intent was to bolster morale and thereby help soldiers survive the war. The Dumbells' popularity was not limited to troop shows along the trenches. The group managed a run in London's West End and became the first Canadian production to score a hit on Broadway. Touring Canada for some twelve years after the war, the Dumbells became a household name and made more than twenty-five audio recordings. If nationhood was won on the crest of Vimy Ridge, it was the Dumbells who provided the country with its earliest soundtrack. Pioneers of sketch comedy, the Dumbells are as important to the history of Canadian theatre as they are to the cultural history of early-twentieth-century Canada."--Back cover.

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