The dangerous lives of public performers : dancing, sex, and entertainment in the Islamic world

• Tác giả: Anthony Shay
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1137433602
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 791.091767 Public performances
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
• Mô tả vật lý: 291 pages : , illustrations ; , 23 cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, nghệ thuật, hội họa
• ID: 155786
• Chủ đề: 1. Entertainers--History--Islamic countries; 2. Performing arts--History--Islamic countries; 3. PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General; 4. PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; 5. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-272) and index.

Tóm tắt

"This study addresses the history of the public entertainer, dancers, singers, actors, and others from ancient Greece and Rome into the Islamic world from its inception to the present day. Reviled, despised, but deeply desired and alluring, the public entertainer came from abject backgrounds--slaves, orphans, minority groups--and served as models of how not to behave through their scandalous lives"-- Provided by publisher.