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This book is a critical study of Iranian dance and the works of Iranian-American female dancers in exile. Focusing on the study of contemporary Iranian dance through analysis of the choreographies of three female dancers in diaspora (namely Aisan Hoss, Shahrzad Khorsandi, and Banafsheh Sayyad), this research is among the first of its kind. Elaheh Hatami investigates the transformation of professional Iranian dance and discusses the role of relocation and displacement in its performance. She argues that Iranian dance and Iranian female dancers have always been in exile - not only in a physical sense, but also in the metaphorical sense of ›exile‹ implying foreignness, exclusion, and marginalization.

Dance --- History. --- Body. --- Displacement. --- Exile. --- Female Dancer. --- Gender. --- Iran. --- Migration. --- Transformation. --- USA.

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A mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose.Not Yo’ Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto—artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful west coast during World War II, Miyamoto leads readers into the landscapes that defined the experiences of twentieth-century America and also foregrounds the struggles of people of color who reclaimed their histories, identities, and power through activism and art. Miyamoto vividly describes her early life in the racialized atmosphere of Hollywood musicals and then her turn toward activism as an Asian American troubadour with the release of A Grain of Sand—considered to be the first Asian American folk album. Her narrative intersects with the stories of Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs, influential in both Asian and Black liberation movements. She tells how her experience of motherhood with an Afro-Asian son, as well as a marriage that intertwined Black and Japanese families and communities, placed her at the nexus of the 1992 Rodney King riots—and how she used art to create interracial solidarity and conciliation. Through it all, Miyamoto has embraced her identity as an Asian American woman to create an antiracist body of work and a blueprint for empathy and praxis through community art. Her sometimes barbed, often provocative, and always steadfast story is now told.

Women dancers --- Women artists --- Miyamoto, Nobuko, --- 1970s. --- A Grain of Sand. --- Asian American Movement. --- Black Panthers. --- Broadway. --- Hollywood. --- Japanese American woman. --- Memoir. --- Smithsonian Folkways. --- activism. --- antiracist. --- artist. --- community. --- dancer. --- expressive culture. --- interethnic alliances. --- internment. --- performance. --- personal. --- political. --- protest music. --- racial formation. --- social justice movements.

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Broadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of La Merm as the irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and all that she meant to Americans over so many decades. This marvelously detailed biography is the first to tell the full story of how the stenographer from Queens, New York, became the queen of the Broadway musical in its golden age. Mining official and unofficial sources, including interviews with Merman's family and her personal scrapbooks, Caryl Flinn unearths new details of Merman's life and finds that behind the high-octane personality was a remarkably pragmatic woman who never lost sight of her roots.Brass Diva takes us from Merman's working-class beginnings through the extraordinary career that was launched in 1930 when, playing a secondary role in a Gershwin Brothers' show, she became an overnight sensation singing "I Got Rhythm." From there, we follow Merman's hits on Broadway, her uneven successes in Hollywood, and her afterlife as a beloved camp icon. This definitive work on the phenomenon that was Ethel Merman is also the first to thoroughly explore her robust influence on American popular culture.

Motion picture actors and actresses --- Singers --- Merman, Ethel. --- american culture. --- american musicals. --- american theatre. --- annie get your gun. --- biographical. --- biography. --- broadway actress. --- broadway diva. --- broadway musical. --- broadway. --- dancer. --- diva. --- famous actress. --- gershwin brothers. --- golden age. --- hollywood. --- life story. --- musical theatre. --- popular culture. --- scrapbook. --- singer. --- stage actors. --- stage actress. --- theatre history. --- theatre. --- true story. --- untold story.

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Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns about modern femininity. The flapper later became closely associated with the 'roaring' 1920s, but in the period immediately after the Great War she represented not only newness and hedonism, but also a frightening, uncertain future. This figure of the modern woman was a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties about modernity, and instabilities of gender, class, race and national identity. This accessible, extensively researched book will be of interest to all those interested in social, cultural or gender history.

Trials (Sex crimes) --- Women --- Sex customs --- Sex role --- Popular culture --- Nineteen twenties. --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Customs, Sex --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Manners and customs --- Moral conditions --- Sex --- Sex crimes --- History --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Social life and customs --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- adultery. --- cross-dressing. --- drugs. --- female dancer. --- lesbianism. --- libel case. --- magistrate-court trials. --- miscegenation. --- modern femininity. --- morality tales. --- murder. --- post-war womanhood. --- sensational trials. --- sexual ignorance. --- sexual perversion. --- virgin birth. --- young female protagonists.

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