The dangerous lives of public performers
Subtitle: dancing, sex, and entertainment in the Islamic world
By: Anthony Shay
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781137433602
Subjects: Entertainers; History; Performing arts; PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-272) and index.