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Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage: Music in American Life

Autor Gillian M Rodger
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 ian 2018
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 more centered on the celebration of male leisure and fashion. Gillian M. Rodger uses the development of male impersonation from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780252083150
ISBN-10: 0252083156
Pagini: 275
Ilustrații: 24 black & white photographs, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Seria Music in American Life


Recenzii

Marcia Herndon Book Award, Gender and Sexualities Section, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2018

"An important study that offers valuable insights into the lives and careers of significant performers, reasons for the popularity of male impersonators, and the types of songs male impersonators included in their repertories."--William Everett, author ofRudolf Friml

"Gillian M. Rodger's new book is a welcome addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century performance culture and the history of gender and sexuality more broadly.Just One of the Boysis a lively, important study, one that will delight readers in performance history, gender history, and U.S. cultural history." --The Journal of American History

"The contributions ofJust One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stageto the history of gender illusion are tremendous." --Journal of the American Musicological Society
"Serious students of variety entertainment will find much to delight them in Rodger's impeccably researched and explicated work. . . Recommended."--Choice
"Gillian Rodger'sJust One of the Boysis a welcome and fascinating addition to the history of cross-dressed performance and 19th-century Anglo-American theater more generally." --The Gay & Lesbian Review
"Through her analysis of performance styles and management strategies in the heyday of variety, Rodger demonstrates the significant role played by women impersonating men, despite the form's declining importance with the transition to vaudeville in the twentieth century." --American Historical Review

Notă biografică

Gillian M. Rodgeris a professor of musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author ofChampagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima: Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century.