Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0807843164
- ISBN-13
- 9780807843161
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 350
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Robert Clyde Allen
Description
A critical history of American burlesque traces its social, demographic, and cultural changes
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