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Cabaret (Paperback)
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Cabaret (Paperback)
Series: Forms of Drama
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Where did cabaret come from? What has it got to do with pre-war
Berlin, decadent society and Nazis? How does it turn into media
cabaret and the sisterhood of sleaze? Is cabaret a primary vehicle
for exploring the range of sexual practices and alternative sexual
identities? In this new book William Grange brings into one place
for the first time the range of practices now associated with the
form of cabaret. Beginning with its origins in speciality German
theatres and the development both of the sheet music industry and
disc recordings, Grange tracks the form through into its golden age
in the 1920s and beyond. The book's three sections deal first with
the emergence of Berlin as the 'German Chicago', where cabaret
flourished in the midst of post-war political turmoil. The
abolition of censorship allowed nude dancing and sexually explicit
songs and routines. It also saw the introduction of kick-line
dancing and black performers. In the book's second and third
sections Grange takes the story forward into the post
second-world-war world, describing how the form moved outwards from
central Europe to move across the whole world, reaching Singapore
and Australia, and as it did so settling into the range of forms in
which we know it today. Some of these forms became 'media cabaret'
looking towards the new media age, the postmodernism that followed
on from modernism. To this age, even in its new forms, cabaret
brought its old habits of making challenges to assumptions around
gender identities and sexual practices. As throughout its whole
history, cabaret was a form that provided particular vehicles for
female performers. And whereas it once served up whore songs and
nude dancing it now offers a sisterhood of sleaze.
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