Just One of the Boys
"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 of Rudolf Friml
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. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Illinois Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780252041518
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
- Priser
- <DIV>Marcia Herndon Book Award, Gender and Sexualities Section, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2018</DIV> 2018
Anmeldelser
"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 of Rudolf 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 Boys is 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 of Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage to 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's Just One of the Boys is 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
«Marcia Herndon Book Award, Gender and Sexualities Section, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2018
"Magisterial." --Jezebel»