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The dangerous lives of public performers : dancing, sex, and entertainment in the Islamic world
- Title
- The dangerous lives of public performers : dancing, sex, and entertainment in the Islamic world / Anthony Shay.
- Author
- Shay, Anthony, 1936-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Details
- Description
- 291 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This study addresses the history of the public entertainer, dancers, singers, actors, and others from ancient Greece and Rome into the Islamic world from its inception to the present day. Reviled, despised, but deeply desired and alluring, the public entertainer came from abject backgrounds--slaves, orphans, minority groups--and served as models of how not to behave through their scandalous lives"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-272) and index.
- Call Number
- *MGR 14-7007
- ISBN
- 9781137433602 (hardback)
- 1137433604 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014001941
- OCLC
- 873726178
- Author
- Shay, Anthony, 1936- author.
- Title
- The dangerous lives of public performers : dancing, sex, and entertainment in the Islamic world / Anthony Shay.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-272) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- *MGR 14-7007