This work reveals the often racy, ribald, and sexually charged
nature of the vaudeville stage, looking at a broad array of
provocative performers from disrobing dancers to nude posers to
skimpily dressed athletes. Examining the ways in which big-time
vaudeville nonetheless managed to market itself as pure, safe, and
morally acceptable, this work compares the industrys marketing and
promotional practices to those of other emergent mass-marketers of
the vaudeville era in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century.
Included are in-depth examinations of important figures from
the vaudeville stage such as Annette Kellerman and Eva Tanguay. The
work attempts to address historical context as one means of
understanding theseperformers with an appreciation for their
rebelliousness. It discusses censorship and content control in the
vaudeville era, and concludes with an analysis of films part in the
fall of vaudeville. Many photographs, cartoons, and other
illustrations are included.
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