Parodies de dandies : travestissement et transgression des genres au music-hall

Why did some Victorian and Edwardian music-hall acts, namely the swell song and male impersonations, choose the dandy, of all cultural icons, to debunk it as a symbol of decadence, and what was the part played by female artists in this exposure ? This paper will focus on those protean artists known...

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Main Author: Catherine Rovera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2011-03-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/2191