Author: Harold B. Segel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231051286
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Traces the history of the European cabaret, discusses the types of entertainment that developed in cabarets, and explains their connection with avant-garde movements.
Turn-of-the-century Cabaret
Author: Harold B. Segel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231051286
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Traces the history of the European cabaret, discusses the types of entertainment that developed in cabarets, and explains their connection with avant-garde movements.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231051286
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Traces the history of the European cabaret, discusses the types of entertainment that developed in cabarets, and explains their connection with avant-garde movements.
Berlin Cabaret
Author: Peter JELAVICH
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, sexual mores and political ideologies--all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent decades of modern German history: the prosperous and optimistic Imperial age, the unstable yet culturally inventive Weimar era, and the repressive years of National Socialism. By situating cabaret within Berlin's rich landscape of popular culture and distinguishing it from vaudeville and variety theaters, spectacular revues, prurient nude dancing, and Communist agitprop, Jelavich revises the prevailing image of this form of entertainment. Neither highly politicized, like postwar German Kabarett, nor sleazy in the way that some American and European films suggest, Berlin cabaret occupied a middle ground that let it cast an ironic eye on the goings-on of Berliners and other Germans. However, it was just this satirical attitude toward serious themes, such as politics and racism, that blinded cabaret to the strength of the radical right-wing forces that ultimately destroyed it. Jelavich concludes with the Berlin cabaret artists' final performances--as prisoners in the concentration camps at Westerbork and Theresienstadt. This book gives us a sense of what the world looked like within the cabarets of Berlin and at the same time lets us see, from a historical distance, these lost performers enacting the political, sexual, and artistic issues that made their city one of the most dynamic in Europe.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, sexual mores and political ideologies--all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent decades of modern German history: the prosperous and optimistic Imperial age, the unstable yet culturally inventive Weimar era, and the repressive years of National Socialism. By situating cabaret within Berlin's rich landscape of popular culture and distinguishing it from vaudeville and variety theaters, spectacular revues, prurient nude dancing, and Communist agitprop, Jelavich revises the prevailing image of this form of entertainment. Neither highly politicized, like postwar German Kabarett, nor sleazy in the way that some American and European films suggest, Berlin cabaret occupied a middle ground that let it cast an ironic eye on the goings-on of Berliners and other Germans. However, it was just this satirical attitude toward serious themes, such as politics and racism, that blinded cabaret to the strength of the radical right-wing forces that ultimately destroyed it. Jelavich concludes with the Berlin cabaret artists' final performances--as prisoners in the concentration camps at Westerbork and Theresienstadt. This book gives us a sense of what the world looked like within the cabarets of Berlin and at the same time lets us see, from a historical distance, these lost performers enacting the political, sexual, and artistic issues that made their city one of the most dynamic in Europe.
Cabarets of Death
Author: Mel Gordon
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 190722226X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. Each had specialized cuisines and morbid visual displays with flashes of nudity and shocking optical illusions. These cabarets were considered the most curious and widely featured amusements in the city. Entrepreneurs even hawked graphic postcards of their ironic spectacles and otherworldly interiors. Cabarets of Death documents the dinner shows, the character interactions with guests, and the theatrical goings-on in these unique establishments. Presenting original images and drawings from contemporary journals, postcards, tourist brochures, and menus, Mel Gordon leads a tour of these idiosyncratically macabre institutions, and grants us unique access to a form of popular spectacle now gone.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 190722226X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. Each had specialized cuisines and morbid visual displays with flashes of nudity and shocking optical illusions. These cabarets were considered the most curious and widely featured amusements in the city. Entrepreneurs even hawked graphic postcards of their ironic spectacles and otherworldly interiors. Cabarets of Death documents the dinner shows, the character interactions with guests, and the theatrical goings-on in these unique establishments. Presenting original images and drawings from contemporary journals, postcards, tourist brochures, and menus, Mel Gordon leads a tour of these idiosyncratically macabre institutions, and grants us unique access to a form of popular spectacle now gone.
Le Chat Noir Exposed
Author: CAROLINE. CREPIAT
Publisher: Black Scat Books
ISBN: 9781735615967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This extraordinary work of scholarship exposes the liveliest fin-de-siècle bohemian cabaret and journal in Paris. Le Chat Noir was a playground for painters, writers, poets, pranksters, and musicians, all gleefully demolishing the standards of art and good taste. Caroline Crépiat examines such eccentric personalities as Paul Verlaine, Alphonse Allais, Marie Krysinska, Maurice Mac-Nab, and Charles Cros, and analyzes their treatment of money, women, translation, humor, sex, disease, and scatology, with generous samplings of the original texts. A masterful look at a rich and colorful legend of the avant-garde!
Publisher: Black Scat Books
ISBN: 9781735615967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This extraordinary work of scholarship exposes the liveliest fin-de-siècle bohemian cabaret and journal in Paris. Le Chat Noir was a playground for painters, writers, poets, pranksters, and musicians, all gleefully demolishing the standards of art and good taste. Caroline Crépiat examines such eccentric personalities as Paul Verlaine, Alphonse Allais, Marie Krysinska, Maurice Mac-Nab, and Charles Cros, and analyzes their treatment of money, women, translation, humor, sex, disease, and scatology, with generous samplings of the original texts. A masterful look at a rich and colorful legend of the avant-garde!
Le Chat Noir. A Montmartre Cabaret and Its Artists in Turn-of-the-Century Paris
Author: A.. Fields
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Cabaret Performance
Author: Laurence Senelick
Publisher: Paj Publication
ISBN: 9781555540432
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"A unique and spectacular collection of cabaret texts, from virtually every important cabaret in Europe, from Amsterdam to Moscow... A splendid introduction to the world of the European cabaret in the first period of its meteoric rise as a form of artistic creativity." -- Harold Segel, author of Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret
Publisher: Paj Publication
ISBN: 9781555540432
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"A unique and spectacular collection of cabaret texts, from virtually every important cabaret in Europe, from Amsterdam to Moscow... A splendid introduction to the world of the European cabaret in the first period of its meteoric rise as a form of artistic creativity." -- Harold Segel, author of Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret
Le Chat Noir
Author: Armond Fields
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Roots of Pierrot Lunaire in Cabaret
Author: Jennifer E. Goltz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Cabaret Performance
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monologues
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"A splendid introduction to the world of the European cabaret in the first period of its meteoric rise as a form of artistic creativity."--Harold Segel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monologues
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"A splendid introduction to the world of the European cabaret in the first period of its meteoric rise as a form of artistic creativity."--Harold Segel
The Scene of Harlem Cabaret
Author: Shane Vogel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226862526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Harlem's nightclubs in the 1920s and '30s were a crucible for testing society's racial and sexual limits. Combining performance theory, historical research, and biographical study, this title explores the role of nightlife performance as a definitive touchstone for understanding the racial and sexual politics of the early 20th century.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226862526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Harlem's nightclubs in the 1920s and '30s were a crucible for testing society's racial and sexual limits. Combining performance theory, historical research, and biographical study, this title explores the role of nightlife performance as a definitive touchstone for understanding the racial and sexual politics of the early 20th century.