The cabaret / Lisa Appignanesi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appignanesi, Lisa.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.).

History.

Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)--History.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 265 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]

Summary:

This captivating book presents a uniquely comprehensive cultural history of cabaret, where the most radical of artists, poets, writers, musicians, and theatre directors have gathered since 1881. Lisa Appignanesi takes us to the original cabaret - the smoke-filled rooms of the Chat Noir in Paris that served as a meeting place for the avant-garde and a laboratory of subversion against the establishment. She then follows the journey of the cabaret across Europe, through its satirical Weimar peak, and to the US and Britain, vividly tracing each development in cabaret history. Bringing that history to the present day, Appignanesi discusses the comedy/satire wave in the UK and US and examines the recent splintering of cabaret into its component parts, from comedy to political song to late night lifestyle.

This revised and updated edition of Appignanesi's classic work is enriched with materials that have only become more accessible in the post-Soviet era. It also features a variety of new illustrations from both East and West. The author sheds new light on The Four Cats cabaret in Barcelona where Picasso's work was first shown in 1900; London's Cave of the Golden Calf where a modernist avant-garde gathered in 1912; The Stray Dog, headquarters of pre-revolutionary St Petersburg bohemia; The Thorn, East Berlin's answer to West Berlin's cabaret culture during the Cold War; and Under the Sign of the Rams, an energetic Cracow cabaret that operated throughout the Communist years.

From its self-conscious origins at the end of the nineteenth century through the Great War, Weimar Germany, World War Two, the Cold War and the final decades of the twentieth century, the cabaret has reinvented itself repeatedly. This book provides a lively look at all aspects of cabaret, where art and entertainment join to mock and provoke, and where radical artistic, literary and political ideas have found expression for more than 120 years.

Contents:

Ladies and gentlemen

Paris 1881 : cabaret is born. Aristide Bruant and Le Mirliton

Cabaret on the move : 1897-1914. Four Catalan cats

Berlin : freedom in tingeltangel

Munich

The eleven executioners

Vienna, Budapest and the rest

Cabaret as a meeting place for artists. Simplicissimus

Le Lapin Agile : salon of the avant garde

Cabaret as a vehicle of the artistic Vanguard. Futurist performance

The cave of the golden calf

Russia : revolutionary art

The early Expressionists

The world as Dada cabaret

Paris Dada

Berlin Dada

The roaring twenties. Le Boeuf sur le toit

Berlin

Kurt Tucholsky

Walter Mehring

Klabund

Eric Kästner

Battling

Sekt, smoke, sex and satire

Schall und Rauch

Rosa Valetti and the cabaret Grössenwahn

Trude Hesterberg's Wild stage

Cabaret for revolution

The blue bird

Relatives and progeny of cabaret. Claire Waldoff

Valeska Gert

The people's comics : enter Karl Valentin

Into the Third Reich. Kabarett der komiker

Die katakombe

Cabaret in exile. Vienna

Zürich

London

The lantern

Four and twenty black sheep and the little theatre

Life and after-life. Post war Germany

Meanwhile in the east

Pod Baranami : under the sign of the Ram

Britain

Stand up and cross over.

Notes:

Ill. on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-257) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0300105800

9780300105803

OCLC:

56540680

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