Shimmy Magazine, Spring/Summer 2006
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Shimmy Magazine, Spring/Summer 2006 has a black ground with a color photograph on the cover of a woman dressed in red. This is a 1950s-style pocket-book sized burlesque magazine created by roller derby athlete Dale Rio.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Dale Rio (aka Black Dahlia), was a member of many roller derby teams throughout her derby career, cut short due to injury. She was a member of the LA Derby Dolls, one of the original teams of the modern era and brought roller derby to Auckland, New Zealand, founding the Pirate City Rollers. She was the founder, editor, writer and photographer for the first roller derby publication of the modern era, Blood and Thunder, which soon became an international publication. Rio was also the founder of Shimmy, a 1950s-style pocketbook sized burlesque magazine. The cross-cultural intersections of roller derby and burlesque create a unique look into the sport that is dominated by women that includes performance along with athleticism and physicality.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Entertainment
label: web subject
content: Women
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2022.0148.16
label: accession number
content: 2022.0148
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0148.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: magazine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 4 in x 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 10.16 cm x .635 cm