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The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers
Dancing, Sex, and Entertainment in the Islamic World
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The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers
Dancing, Sex, and Entertainment in the Islamic World
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Examining performers from the ancient Mediterranean world to the modern Islamic Middle East, including India and Pakistan, Shay explores the careers, artistic performances, and legacies of these individuals who were forced to produce entertainment and art for, and have sex with, any and all patrons.
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Theatre History & CriticismTable of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Content
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Life as a Public Entertainer
- 1 The Public Entertainer
- 2 The Contours of Masculinity and Public Entertainers in Ancient Greece
- 3 The Contours of Masculinity and the Public Entertainer in Rome, Hellenistic Greece, and Byzantium
- 4 Medieval Islam: The Caliphate in Damascus, Baghdad, CĂłrdoba, Cairo, and Beyond
- 5 After the Caliphate: Early Modern Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Iran, Mughal IndiaâThe Heyday of Islamic Gunpowder Empires
- 6 The Long Nineteenth Century: The Qajars, the Ottomans, Egypt, and Colonialism
- 7 The Twentieth and the Twenty-First Centuries: Modernity and Nationalism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Videos and Films
- Index