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Jeanne Scheper - Moving Performances - 9780813585444 - V9780813585444
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Moving Performances

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Description for Moving Performances Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 27 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AN; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 313.
Fabulous yet fierce, imperious yet impetuous, boss yet bitchy—divas are figures of paradox. Their place in culture is equally contradictory, as they are simultaneously venerated and marginalized, hailed as timeless but then frequently forgotten or exhumed as cult icons by future generations.  Focusing on four early twentieth-century divas—Aida Overton Walker, Loïe Fuller, Libby Holman, and Josephine Baker—who were icons in their own time, Moving Performances considers what their past and current reception reveals about changing ideas of race and gender. Jeanne Scheper examines how iconicity can actually work to the diva’s detriment, reducing her to a fetish object, a grotesque, or ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813585444
SKU
V9780813585444
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Jeanne Scheper
JEANNE SCHEPER is an associate professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine. 

Reviews for Moving Performances
"This well-researched and carefully conceptualized study establishes a crucial connection between women artists' cultural production and the political economy in which they worked. Rich and complex, Moving Performances will make a notable and distinct contribution to the existing scholarship."
Mae Henderson
author of Speaking in Tongues & Dancing Diaspora: Black Women Writing and Performing
"This innovative study ... Read more

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