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Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Sta,
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- ISBN
- 9780252083150
- Subject Area
- Music, Social Science, Performing Arts
- Publication Name
- Just One of the Boys : Female-To-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Subject
- History & Criticism, Theater / History & Criticism, Gender Studies, Acting & Auditioning
- Series
- Music in American Life Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 275 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
0252083156
ISBN-13
9780252083150
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237831766
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Just One of the Boys : Female-To-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History & Criticism, Theater / History & Criticism, Gender Studies, Acting & Auditioning
Series
Music in American Life Ser.
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music, Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
275 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2017-026731
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Ml1711.4.R64 2918
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"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, "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, 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 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, Marcia Herndon Book Award, Gender and Sexualities Section, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2018 "Magisterial." -- Jezebel, "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, "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, "Serious students of variety entertainment will find much to delight them in Rodger's impeccably researched and explicated work. . . Recommended."-- Choice, "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 repertoires."--William Everett, author of Rudolf Friml
Copyright Date
2018
Dewey Decimal
792.70973/09034
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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