Turn-Of-The-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich - Hardcover

Segel, Harold B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023105128X ISBN 13: 9780231051286

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Traces the history of the European cabaret, discusses the types of entertainment that developed in cabarets, and explains their connection with avant-garde movements.

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The first French cabaret, the Chat Noir (Black Cat), opened in Paris in 1881 as an informal group of poets, painters, musicians and theater people. It published its own magazine and showcased singer Aristide Bruant, who immortalized common folk and petty criminals. The cabaret craze soon swept Europe. At the Stray Dog cafe in St. Petersburg, Mayakovsky, Blok and Akhmatova gathered. Barcelona's cabarets, where Picasso exhibited his art, were the vortex of a Catalonian cultural renaissance. Numbing social conservatism was the target of satirical one-acters performed in the clubs of Berlin, Munich and Cracow. In Zurich, Cabaret Voltaire gave birth to the Dada movement in 1916-17. This riveting, richly detailed chronicle by a Columbia professor shows that the cabaret was a breeding ground of modernism, a crucible in which "high" and "low" art forms were fused. An invaluable study of a neglected phenomenon.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 023105128X
• ISBN 13: 9780231051286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 418