... entertainers. Others, like the Nashville Students, successfully incorporated variety entertainment in their programs while maintaining their reputation as concert artists. The career of Sam Lucas demonstrates the nexus between folk and popular song traditions as the boundaries between the altruistic...

...0 12 05 2006 When the peak of a nine-day jazz festival is scaled by a 75-year-old entertainer whose jazz associations over half a century have been at best tangential and at worst gratuitous, you can assume that the usual suspects flagged terribly or that said entertainer astounded. Lena...

...0 23 03 2006 The history of the vanished Korean female professional entertainer known as gisaeng is riddled with ambiguities. These arise from the inherent social-structural ambiguity of Korean (and many other) traditional female entertainers who have operated outside of established morality...

...This chapter discusses two key roles of the traditional Jewish entertainer known as the badkhn: as a performer on the wedding stage (bimah) at Jewish weddings and as the author of published versions of such performances. It examines, first, the badkhn...

..., arguing that Sundanese men use dance to explore and enact contradictions in their gender identities. Framing the three crucial elements of Sundanese dance—the female entertainer, the drumming, and men's sense of freedom—as a triangle, the book connects them to a range of other theoretical perspectives...

...The extraordinary story of Emperor Zhenzong and Empress Liu reveals much about the interaction of gender, pleasure, and power at the Chinese court. Although Empress Liu was unusually successful in parlaying her entertainment skills into political power, she was far from unique. Yet entertainers...

...0 25 12 2003 The human being—the entertainer formerly known as Man—is the repairing animal. Repair certainly is n’t the only work humans do, nor are we the only animals that do it. And no doubt there already are plenty of venerable and captivating portraits of Homo sapiens...

...0 28 06 2007 Singer, musician, court entertainer, and playwright, John Heywood (1497–1575) belonged to Thomas More’s circle and remained a Roman Catholic through the tumultuous changes of his long life. Both his sons, Ellis and Jasper, became priests: Ellis wrote a prat Nay, deal as thou canst...

... environment differed from that of her siblings, even beyond the fact that she was the baby and that her father was no longer an itinerant entertainer. Some things remained much the same. The family pattern of Rose making the household decisions continued. Although he was no longer touring, Lew was seldom...

... The Entertainer the miners’ strike Night after Night Salad Days sexual conformity working-class culture After the experiments in new musico-dramaturgical forms in British musicals from the 1970s to the 1990s, ¹  Billy Elliot: The Musical (2005) returns to older forms...

...This chapter, which examines Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer from the literary perspective of his sonnets, begins by examining Shakespeare's quite different contemporary reputation as a commanding writer. It shows how celebrations of Shakespeare as a sovereign poet were complicated...

... state” to effectively institute and maintain power over their subjects and relied on the captivating skills of Romani professional entertainers. Romani entertainers survived through developing polyglot repertoires and styles from their stigmatized social position, existing in the Ottoman world...

... of the bold and sexual female entertainer. She was a precursor to subsequent generations of performers, who have been both idolized and condemned for simultaneously displaying and playing with blatant displays of female sexuality. This book tells Eva Tanguay's remarkable life story. Born into the family...