Burlesque West: Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver
After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West,the first critical history of this notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route f...
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| Zusammenfassung: | After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West,the first critical history of this notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from Los Angeles to Vancouver that provided rotating work for dancers and variety for club clientele. Drawing on extensive archival materials and fifty first-person accounts of former dancers, strip-club owners, booking agents, choreographers, and musicians, Ross reveals stories that are deeply flavoured with an era before "striptease fell from grace because the world stopped dreaming," in the words of ex-dancer Lindalee Tracey. Though jobs in this particular industry are often perceived as having little in common with other sorts of work, retired dancers' accounts resonate surprisingly with those of contemporary service workers, including perceptions of unionization and workplace benefits and hazards. Ross also traces the sanitization and subsequent integration of striptease style and neo-burlesque trends into mass culture, examining continuity and change to ultimately demonstrate that Vancouver's glitzy nightclub scene, often condemned as a quasi-legal strain of urban blight, in fact greased the economic engine of the post-war city. Provocative and challenging, Burlesque West combines the economic, the social, the sexual, and the personal, and is sure to intellectually tantalize |
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| spelling | Ross, Becki Verfasser aut Burlesque West Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver Becki Ross Toronto University of Toronto Press [2020] © 2009 1 online resource (368 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020) After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West,the first critical history of this notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from Los Angeles to Vancouver that provided rotating work for dancers and variety for club clientele. Drawing on extensive archival materials and fifty first-person accounts of former dancers, strip-club owners, booking agents, choreographers, and musicians, Ross reveals stories that are deeply flavoured with an era before "striptease fell from grace because the world stopped dreaming," in the words of ex-dancer Lindalee Tracey. Though jobs in this particular industry are often perceived as having little in common with other sorts of work, retired dancers' accounts resonate surprisingly with those of contemporary service workers, including perceptions of unionization and workplace benefits and hazards. Ross also traces the sanitization and subsequent integration of striptease style and neo-burlesque trends into mass culture, examining continuity and change to ultimately demonstrate that Vancouver's glitzy nightclub scene, often condemned as a quasi-legal strain of urban blight, in fact greased the economic engine of the post-war city. Provocative and challenging, Burlesque West combines the economic, the social, the sexual, and the personal, and is sure to intellectually tantalize In English Coursebook HISTORY / Canada / General bisacsh Burlesque (Theater) History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Burlesque (Theater) British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Burlesque (Théâtre) Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Danseuses de revue Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Nightlife History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Nightlife British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Sex-oriented businesses History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Sex-oriented businesses British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Showgirls History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Showgirls British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Striptease History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Striptease British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Stripteasers History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Stripteasers British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Stripteaseuses Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Vie nocturne Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442697843 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442697843 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Ross, Becki Burlesque West Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver Coursebook HISTORY / Canada / General bisacsh Burlesque (Theater) History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Burlesque (Theater) British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Burlesque (Théâtre) Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Danseuses de revue Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Nightlife History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Nightlife British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Sex-oriented businesses History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Sex-oriented businesses British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Showgirls History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Showgirls British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Striptease History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Striptease British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Stripteasers History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Stripteasers British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Stripteaseuses Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Vie nocturne Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver |
| title | Burlesque West Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver |
| title_auth | Burlesque West Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver |
| title_exact_search | Burlesque West Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver |
| title_exact_search_txtP | Burlesque West Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver |
| title_full | Burlesque West Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver Becki Ross |
| title_fullStr | Burlesque West Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver Becki Ross |
| title_full_unstemmed | Burlesque West Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver Becki Ross |
| title_short | Burlesque West |
| title_sort | burlesque west showgirls sex and sin in postwar vancouver |
| title_sub | Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver |
| topic | Coursebook HISTORY / Canada / General bisacsh Burlesque (Theater) History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Burlesque (Theater) British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Burlesque (Théâtre) Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Danseuses de revue Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Nightlife History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Nightlife British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Sex-oriented businesses History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Sex-oriented businesses British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Showgirls History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Showgirls British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Striptease History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Striptease British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Stripteasers History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Stripteasers British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Stripteaseuses Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Vie nocturne Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver |
| topic_facet | Coursebook HISTORY / Canada / General Burlesque (Theater) History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Burlesque (Theater) British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Burlesque (Théâtre) Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Danseuses de revue Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Nightlife History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Nightlife British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Sex-oriented businesses History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Sex-oriented businesses British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Showgirls History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Showgirls British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Striptease History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Striptease British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Stripteasers History 20th century British Columbia Vancouver Stripteasers British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Stripteaseuses Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Vie nocturne Histoire Colombie-Britannique Vancouver |
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