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A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams 22-4677
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- Condition
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- Seller Notes
- “pages on crisp and clear only wear is slight rubbing marks on edge of book over from shelf life”
- Tradition
- US Comics
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Artist/Writer
- David Hajdu
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Genre
- Music, Performing Arts, Comics & Graphic Novels
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Bert Williams--a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged the stereotypes of minstrelsy. Eva Tanguay--an entertainer with the signature song "I Don't Care" who flouted the rules of propriety to redefine womanhood for the modern age. Julian Eltinge--a female impersonator who entranced and unnerved audiences by embodying the feminine ideal Tanguay rejected. At the turn of the twentieth century, they became three of the most provocative and popular performers in vaudeville, the form in which American mass entertainment first took shape. A Revolution in Three Acts explores how these vaudeville stars defied the standards of their time to change how their audiences thought about what it meant to be American, to be Black, to be a woman or a man. The writer David Hajdu and the artist John Carey collaborate in this work of graphic nonfiction, crafting powerful portrayals of Williams, Tanguay, and Eltinge to show how they transformed American culture. Hand-drawn images give vivid visual form to the lives and work of the book's subjects and their world. This book is at once a deft telling of three intricately entwined stories, a lush evocation of a performance milieu with unabashed entertainment value, and an eye-opening account of a key moment in American cultural history with striking parallels to present-day questions of race, gender, and sexual identity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231191820
ISBN-13
9780231191821
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24050025838
Product Key Features
Genre
Music, Performing Arts, Comics & Graphic Novels
Publication Year
2021
Language
English
Artist/Writer
David Hajdu
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6in
Item Length
11in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Width
8.5in
Additional Product Features
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Music critic Hajdu and artist Carey recapture the bygone days of vaudeville, bringing to fresh light and life the stories of three transgressive performers in this entertaining graphic group biography . . . The history is relayed via robust storytelling, combining a little-remembered piece of showbiz history with insights into the ways in which entertainment both reflects and shapes American cultural life and values., Brimming with insight and graphic creativity, this is a highly engaging and informative history of three of the most transformative American performers of the early twentieth century: a Black man who subverted blackface by performing in it, a "wild woman" who "didn't care" about social convention, and a female impersonator who provided beauty advice to multitudes of American women. Hajdu and Carey deftly show us how, rather than being consigned to the margins, they made themselves unlikely stars of the most popular entertainment form of their day: vaudeville, the voice of the city., This vivid book offers the tales and truths of pioneering performers who challenged the rules of race, gender, and sexuality. "Change the joke and slip the yoke," as Ralph Ellison said. And so they did, remaking American art and history and culture in the process., A Revolution in Three Acts is a vivid window into a bygone era of American entertainment. Here is vaudeville and all its comic, dramatic, and tragic dimensions as witnessed in the lives of three of its most pivotal practitioners. David Hajdu and John Carey have not simply crafted an elegy for an artform, they have chronicled the figures whose talent made it great in the first place., Three amazing people--Bert Williams, a Black entertainer who pushed the boundaries of minstrelsy; Eva Tanguay, the sexually provocative and funny performer whose best-known song is about not caring what people thought of her; and Julian Eltinge, the cross-dressing vaudevillian who even had his own magazine--are the stars of this entertaining, thought-provoking work of graphic history., Neither revolution nor radical are terms commonly associated with vaudeville. Yet Hajdu and Carey effectively illuminate the significance of three trailblazers who merit such rhetoric and who have been largely forgotten since vaudeville lost its audience to the movies . . . Hajdu's lively scholarship and critical perspective match Carey's spirited renderings, which range from ebullience to devastation. A sharp account that brings life and light to a period that has gone dark in popular memory., Three amazing people--Bert Williams, a Black entertainer who pushed the boundaries of minstrelsy; Eva Tanguay, a sexually provocative and funny performer whose best-known song is about not caring what people thought of her; and Julian Eltinge, a cross-dressing vaudevillian who even had his own magazine--are the stars of this entertaining, thought-provoking work of graphic history., A Revolution in Three Acts is an incredible work of historical scholarship, entertainment, and artistry., A Revolution in Three Acts is a vivid window into a bygone era of American entertainment. Here is vaudeville and all its comic, dramatic, and tragic dimensions as witnessed in the lives of three of its most pivotal practitioners. David Hajdu and John Carey have not simply crafted an elegy for an art form, they have chronicled the figures whose talent made it great in the first place., David Hajdu and John Carey's A Revolution in Three Acts offers a thoroughly engrossing, kaleidoscopic historical portrait of three landmark entertainers: Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge, artists who challenged the presumptive rigidity of racial, gender, and class categories both off the stage as well as on it. With its crisp, vivid, animated narration, it is a book that illuminates the intersecting careers of these pathbreaking performers and the electrifying ways that they each used vaudeville as the space where American identity could be radically reimagined. A page-turner., Using a format as episodic as the unique performance tradition they are depicting, David Hajdu and John Carey introduce readers to three figures who transformed vaudeville and defied the values of their age. Giving voice and images to these remarkable performers and their social and political milieu, we see Bert Williams convert the stereotypes of Blackness in what Frederick Douglass referred to as the 'pestiferous nuisance' of blackface minstrelsy into performances that depicted the pathos of Black people's experience in the racist and segregated US; Julian Eltinge's cross-dressed delineations of femininity reveal the fluidity and performativity of gender, and Eva Tanguay's embrace of the Salome character's sensuality signify 'new' women's rebellion against social constraints.
Book Title
Revolution in Three Acts : the Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge
Lccn
2021-013069
Target Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
792.7028092273
Topic
History & Criticism, Theater / History & Criticism, Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir
Lc Classification Number
Pn2285.H28 2021
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