Cabaret /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Grange, William (Συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Methuen Drama, 2021.
• Σειρά: Forms of drama
• Θέματα: Μιούζικ-χολς (Θεάματα ποικιλιών, καμπαρέ, βαριετέ, μπουρλέσκ, κτλ.) > Ιστορία

 "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"-- 

 Introduction -- Part 1: Beginnings in France -- Montmartre -- The Bohemians -- Rodolphe Salis -- Aristide Bruant -- Yvette Guilbert -- Part 2: The craze spreads to Germany -- Kabarett -- Munich -- Frank Wedekind -- Kathi Kobus -- Vienna -- Part 3: Offshoots: Prague, Krakow, Budapest, Moscow, Zurich -- Prague -- Krakow -- Budapest -- Moscow -- Zurich -- New York -- Part 4: The golden age of Cabaret -- Escape -- The outbreak of war -- The new republic -- The naked body of Cabaret -- Wildness and megalomania -- The follies of Foliés and Revues -- Retorts and tribunals -- Part 5: The Nazi terror -- Catastrophe -- The national Socialist reign of terror -- Cabaret in exile -- Klaus and Erika Mann -- Part 6: Cabaret in a media-driven age -- Aftermath -- The economic miracle -- Cabaret on the airwaves -- East Germany -- Fat and overfed -- The revolt of the 68ers -- Downhill -- Televised Cabaret.