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Simonson Mary |
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Body Knowledge [[electronic resource] /] : Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / / by Mary Simonson |
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New York, : OUP USA, 2013 |
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1 online resource (304 p. ) : 8 music examples and 21 photographs |
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This book traces the deployment of intermedial aesthetics in the works of early twentieth-century female performers. By destabilizing medial and genre boundaries, these women created compelling and meaningful performances that negotiated turn-of-the-century American social and cultural issues. |
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