Beyond the Moulin Rouge: The Life and Legacy of La Goulue, Visconti Will

Автор: Visconti Will
Название: Beyond the Moulin Rouge: The Life and Legacy of La Goulue
ISBN: 0813946816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813946818
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Best known by her stage name, La Goulue (the Glutton), Louise Weber was one of the biggest stars of fin de si?cle Paris, renowned as a cancan dancer at the Moulin Rouge. The subject of numerous paintings and photographs, she became an iconic figure of modern art. Her life, however, has consistently been misrepresented and reduced to a footnote in the stories of men such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Where most accounts dismiss her rise and fall as brief and rapid, the truth is that her career as a performer spanned five decades, during which La Goulue constantly reinvented herself—as a dancer, animal tamer, sideshow performer, and muse of photographers, painters, sculptors, and filmmakers.With Beyond the Moulin Rouge, the first substantive English-language study of La Goulue’s career and posthumous influence, Will Visconti corrects persistent myths. Despite a tumultuous personal life, La Goulue overcame loss, abusive relationships, and poverty to become the very embodiment of nineteenth-century Paris, f?ted by royalty and followed as closely as any politician or monarch.Visconti draws on previously overlooked materials, including medical records, media reports across Europe and the United States, and surviving pages from Louise Weber’s diary, to trace the life and impact of a woman whose cultural significance has been ignored in favor of the men around her, and who spent her life upending assumptions about gender, morality, and domesticity in France during the fin de si?cle and early twentieth century.

Автор: Martin Maryline
Название: The Queen of the Moulin Rouge: Her Story
ISBN: 1771615885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771615884
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Описание: This is the unique story of Louise Weber, better known as La Goulue. She became the undisputed Queen of the Moulin Rouge cabaret and the most famous dancer in France in the late 19th century. Toulouse Lautrec immortalized her in his world renowned poster and paintings of her dancing at the Moulin Rouge. She was the toast of Montmartre and Paris, her fame was tied to her outrageous dancing of the can-can and she was the highest paid performer of her day. This book is the first fully researched and detailed study of La Goulue. The author Maryline Martin mined the archives of the Moulin Rouge where she found the actual diary of Louise Weber, and the Archive of the Prefecture of Paris to create this enormously entertaining and important biography. What emerges is a portrait of a fearless woman who broke all codes of conduct for a late 19th century woman. She willingly trampled on the social, moral and religious conventions of her time demanding that women be treated as the equal of men. She created her own legend in her own time. Having achieved both fame and fortune, in 1895, La Goulue decided to part company with the Moulin Rouge and created her own travelling show as part of a large fair. She invested her fortune in this effort and it turned into a dismal failure. Her show closed down and she disappeared from the public eye. Now an alcoholic, depressed , she sold peanuts and cigarettes on a street corner near the Moulin Rouge. She died in 1929 at the age of 62.and is now buried in the Cimetiere de Montmartre.

Автор: Martin Hawkins
Название: Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge
ISBN: 0807177296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807177297
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Описание: As Louis Armstrong forever tethered jazz to New Orleans and Clifton Chenier fixed Lafayette as home to zydeco, Slim Harpo established Baton Rouge as a base for the blues. In the only complete biography of this internationally renowned blues singer and musician, Martin Hawkins traces Harpo's rural upbringing near Louisiana's capital, his professional development fostered by the local music scene, and his national success with R&B hits like Rainin' in My Heart, Baby Scratch My Back, and I'm A King Bee, among others. Hawkins follows Harpo's global musical impact from the early 1960s to today and offers a detailed look at the nature of the independent recording business that enabled his remarkable legacy.With new research and interviews, Hawkins fills in previous biographical gaps and redresses misinformation about Harpo's life. In addition to weaving the musician's career into the lives of other Louisiana blues players—including Lightnin' Slim, Lazy Lester, and Silas Hogan—the author discusses the pioneering role of Crowley, Louisiana, record producer J. D. Miller and illustrates how Excello Records in Nashville brought national attention to Harpo's music recorded in Louisiana.This engaging narrative examines Harpo's various recording sessions and provides a detailed discography, as well as a list of blues-related records by fellow Baton Rouge artists. Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge will stand as the ultimate resource on the musician's life and the rich history of Baton Rouge's blues heritage.

Автор: Allen Heather
Название: The Girl Who Said Goodbye: A Memoir of a Khmer Rouge Survivor
ISBN: 1643399551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643399553
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