December 11, 2020

Minisode - Little Egypt and Orientalism in Burlesque

44 minutes

This week's Historical Heaux is Little Egypt!

American Belly Dance and the Invention of the New Exotic: Orientalism, Feminism, and Popular Culture Jennifer Lynn Haynes-Clark Portland State University

https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=open_access_etds

In the classic American belly dance publication, Earth Dancing: Mother Nature’s Oldest Rite, Gioseffi traces the origins of belly dance from a tourist spectacle on the Barbary Coast to the “Victorian pornography” of Little Egypt dancing at the World’s Fair, to burlesque and then the striptease (1980: 37-39).

History Of Burlesque: Little Egypt and the Chicago World Fair

https://bluestockingmagazine.com/2014/08/12/history-of-burlesque-little-egypt-and-the-chicago-world-fair/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/narratively.com/meet-the-kim-kardashian-of-the-1890s/amp/

https://futuresinitiative.org/burlesque/2017/07/16/fahreda-mazar-spyropoulos/

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