The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers

Dancing, Sex, and Entertainment in the Islamic World
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-49268-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 291 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3843 g

Examining performers from the ancient Mediterranean world to the modern Islamic Middle East, including India and Pakistan, Shay explores the careers, artistic performances, and legacies of these individuals who were forced to produce entertainment and art for, and have sex with, any and all patrons.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shay, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Life as a Public Entertainer 1. The Public Entertainer 2. The Contours of Masculinity and Public Entertainers in Ancient Greece 3. The Contours of Masculinity and the Public Entertainer in Rome, Hellenistic Greece, and Byzantium 4. Medieval Islam: The Caliphate in Damascus, Baghdad, Córdoba, Cairo, and Beyond 5. After the Caliphate: Early Modern Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Iran, Mughal India: The Heyday of Islamic Gunpowder Empires 6. The Long Nineteenth Century, the Qajars, the Ottomans, Egypt, and Colonialism 7. The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Modernity and Nationalism

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony Shay is Associate Professor of Dance at Pomona College, USA.