Hajdu / Carey A Revolution in Three Acts

The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-54954-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: Unbekannt
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

A Revolution in Three Acts explores how three 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hajdu, David

Carey, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

David Hajdu is a professor at the Columbia Journalism School. His books include Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (1996); Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña (2001); The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (2008); and Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction (2020).

John Carey is a painter and cartoonist. He was the editorial cartoonist for Greater Media Newspapers for many years.

Michele Wallace is professor emerita of English at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her books include Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory (1990).