The dangerous lives of public performers: dancing, sex, and entertainment in the Islamic world

"This study addresses the history of the public entertainer, dancers, singers, actors, and others from ancient Greece and Rome into the Islamic world from its inception to the present day. Reviled, despised, but deeply desired and alluring, the public entertainer came from abject backgrounds--s...

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1. Verfasser: Shay, Anthony 1936- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke ; New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan [2014]
Ausgabe:First published
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Zusammenfassung:"This study addresses the history of the public entertainer, dancers, singers, actors, and others from ancient Greece and Rome into the Islamic world from its inception to the present day. Reviled, despised, but deeply desired and alluring, the public entertainer came from abject backgrounds--slaves, orphans, minority groups--and served as models of how not to behave through their scandalous lives"--
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ISBN:9781137432384
DOI:10.1057/9781137432384

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