A History Of Burlesque

Author : Jo Weldon
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061997005
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burlesque Handbook written by Jo Weldon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burlesque Handbook is the essential manual to understanding and performing both classic and neo-burlesque. Written by Jo Weldon, award-winning founder of the New York School of Burlesque, this book features easy-to-follow suggestions and exercises for developing stage-worthy confidence, presence, and sexiness. You'll learn about the fabulous makeup, costumes—including pasties!—moves, grooves, and attitudes of burlesque. The Burlesque Handbook is the must-have guide for everyone interested in this vibrant and wildly popular performance art, providing inspiration and practical information that readers can take straight from the page to the stage!

Author : Irving Zeidman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Burlesque Show written by Irving Zeidman and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Allen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860085
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horrible Prettiness written by Robert Allen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of "British Blondes" brought modern burlesque to the United States in 1868, the result was electric. Their impertinent humor, streetwise manner, and provocative parodies of masculinity brought them enormous popular success--and the condemnation of critics, cultural commentators, and even women's rights campaigners. Burlesque was a cultural threat, Allen argues, because it inverted the "normal" world of middle-class social relations and transgressed norms of "proper" feminine behavior and appearance. Initially playing to respectable middle-class audiences, burlesque was quickly relegated to the shadow-world of working-class male leisure. In this process the burlesque performer "lost" her voice, as burlesque increasingly revolved around the display of her body. Locating burlesque within the context of both the social transformation of American theater and its patterns of gender representation, Allen concludes that burlesque represents a fascinating example of the potential transgressiveness of popular entertainment forms, as well as the strategies by which they have been contained and their threats defused.

Author : Kaitlyn Regehr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190457562
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The League of Exotic Dancers written by Kaitlyn Regehr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion has been an annual tradition since 1955, when the League of Exotic Dancers (LED), one of America's earliest unions for women in exotic entertainment, held its first meeting. Today, situated in downtown Las Vegas, often called "Old Vegas" or "50s Vegas," The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion now takes the form of a social club and support group, where these late life dancers perform their half-century-year-old routines from the golden age of burlesque to a rally of counter culture neo-burlesque fans"--

Author : Jane Briggeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593934699
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burlesque written by Jane Briggeman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the spirit of a unique art form through hundreds of photographs and stories from many who were a part of America's most colorful past, highlighting the careers and contributions of selected artists, many of whom were the nuts and bolts of the industry. It also acknowledges some of the young performers of today who are working to remember the days of old.

Author : Ettore Rella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Burlesque written by Ettore Rella and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Liz Goldwyn
Publisher : It Books
ISBN 13 : 9780062011817
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pretty Things written by Liz Goldwyn and published by It Books. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liz Goldwyn's lifelong fascination with the inimitable glamour of classic burlesque inspired her to spend the past eight years corresponding with, visiting, interviewing, receiving striptease lessons from, and forming close relationships with the last generation of the great American burlesque queeens. Goldwyn invites us to step back into an era when the hourglass figure was in vogue and striptease was a true art form. Meet Betty "Ball of Fire" Rowland, who was known for her flaming red hair and bump–and–grind routines. (It turns out she once sued the author's grandfather, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., for using her stage name and costume in his Hollywood picture, Ball of Fire.) Meet Sherry Britton, who, with her long black hair and curvy, trim physique, was among the most stunning of the burlesque stars before Mayor LaGuardia outlawed burlesque in New York. Meet Zorita, whose sexually explicit "Consummation of the Wedding of the Snake" dance (performed with a live snake) and other daring performances earned her legendary status. Goldwyn draws back the curtain to reveal the personal journeys of yesteryear's icons of female sexuality and power, restoring their legacy to an age that has all but forgotten them–despite today's resurgence of burlesque.

Author : David Cary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bit of Burlesque written by David Cary and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Cary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bit of Burlesque written by David Cary and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ettore Rella
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259899549
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Burlesque (Classic Reprint) written by Ettore Rella and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of Burlesque Greek Myth Through London Fog. A Miner Sees A Burlesque Faust Inside a Melodeon. Three Fast Men for Ten Nights. The Marsh Juvenile Comedians Maguire and the Seven Sisters. A Free Ride for the State Senate Mazeppa Comes to Town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.