Reviews for Looka yonder!

The average rating for Looka yonder! based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-10-09 00:00:00 John Kruse I highly recommend to anyone interested in burlesque or women in stage and performance. A very indepth look at the history and evolution of burlesque and how we got from parodies to striptease, and how it eventually died out. This book was published before neo-burlesque returned in the 90s, so keep that in mind. Allen covers a lot of territory, including not just description of what was happening but how it was affected and did affect American culture, society, economics, gender politics, and sexuality. Throughout he emphasizes how burlesque, no matter what decade it took place in, highlighted social and class hierarchies and the conflict between the bourgeois and the lower and working class.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-12-28 00:00:00 Susan Randolph What is considered art for the elite becomes sinful when performed for the masses. This book shows how one's position in society determines ones' views of entertainment. Burlesque started out with predominately women performers. As in Elizabethan theater all parts were played by a single gender, only in burlesques women took on male roles as well as female. Fun was verbally and physically poked at various political and cultural figures by the women. As time passed men began taking over and women lost their voices to become only exhibitors of their physical attributes. Then burlesque died.