Trudy Irene Scee

Dancing in Paradise, Burning in Hell

Women in Maine's Historic Working Class Dance Industry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Historian Trudy Irene Scee explores the dance industries of Maine, how they were effected by national events, and how events in Maine effected national trends. She explores the difficulties women faced in the early 20th century and how they turned to new forms of entertainment to make money and pay for food and shelter. The focus of the book centers on the 1910s through the 1970s, but extends back into the 1800s, largely exploring the dance halls of the nineteenth century (be they saloons with hurdy-gurdy girls and the like, or dance halls with women performing the early forms of taxi- and belly dancing), and includes a chapter on belly dancing and other forms of dance entertainment in Maine in the 1980s to early 2000s. The newest form of dance-striptease dancing-is not be examined specifically, but is discussed as it pertains to the other dance forms. The book forms a unique look at one segment of Maine history and is a terrific addition to the literature on women's issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Down East Books
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781608935093
• ISBN-10: 1608935094
• Artikelnr.: 42811087

Autorenporträt

By Trudy Irene Scee

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction--America Meets the New Dancing Women
Recoils in Shock
and Yet Whispers "Come a Little Bit Closer"; The Hurdy Gurdy Girls
Burlesque Women
Little Egypts
and Taxi Dancers of the 1880s-1910s Chapter One--The New Dancers Come to Maine; Disruption in the Dance Halls
Gold and Silver Purses for Prizes
and Scandal on the Stage
1900-1923 Chapter Two--As Long as You Stay on Your Feet; The Vaudeville Queens
Taxi-Dancers
and the Early Contest and Endurance Dancers Earn Their Dimes and Dollars Dancing Along the Roadways and in the Dance Halls from Old Orchard Beach to Bangor
Maine
1923-1932 Chapter Three--Dancing in Paradise
Burning in Hell; The Long-Term Endurance Indoor Dance Marathons of Maine
the Fatal Fire at the Paradise Dance Pavillion
and How What Happened in Maine Changed the Nation
1930-1935 Chapter Four--The Search for More; Burlesque Masquerades as Vaudeville in Maine
as The Silver Screen Plays the Hootchie Coohcie in its Carnival and Bare Belly Beauties
1934-1944 Chapter Five--The Dance Didn't Go On
And They Really Weren't Strippers; The Maine Shipyard Workers' Riot of 1944
"The Girl Problem in Portland
" and other Social Transitions in Dance and Society
1944-1954 Chapter Six--The Fight For the Fifties and Sixties; Ethnic Dancing (largely Greek and Turkish belly Dancing)
Vaudeville
Burlesque
and the Lure of Cinema in the 1950s and 1960s Chapter Seven--The Great Divergence and the United States Supreme Court; Strippers Come to Maine and Elsewhere
the Lines are Drawn
and the Other Dancers Struggle to Define Just Who They Are
1960s-1970s Chapter Eight--Little Egypt Grows Up
and Emerges as the Queen of The Coast; Ethnic and Belly Dancing in Maine
1970-2000 Chapter Nine--The Same Old Moves with New Respectability
at Least in the Eyes of Many: Maine's Transformed Belly Dancers
Taxi-Dancers
and Burlesque Performers of the Late 1990s and Early 2000s Conclusion Index