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Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay

Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay

Erdman, Andrew L.

Hardcover

Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiographies GeneralPlays

Publisher Price: $31.95

ISBN10: 0801449707
ISBN13: 9780801449703
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Sep 15 2012
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.51 Depth: 9.46
Language: English

In her day, Eva Tanguay (1879-1947) was one of the most famous women in America. Widely known as the I Don't Care Girl--named after a song she popularized and her independent, even brazen persona--Tanguay established herself as a vaudeville and musical comedy star in 1901 with the New York City premiere of the show My Lady--and never looked back. Tanguay was, at the height of a long career that stretched until the early 1930s, a trend-setting performer who embodied the emerging ideal of the bold and sexual female entertainer. Whether suggestively singing songs with titles like It's All Been Done Before But Not the Way I Do It and Go As Far As You Like or wearing a daring dress made of pennies, she was a precursor to subsequent generations of performers, from Mae West to Madonna and Lady Gaga, who have been both idolized and condemned for simultaneously displaying and playing with blatant displays of female sexuality.

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