The Cabaret

This captivating book presents a uniquely comprehensive cultural history of cabaret, where the most radical of artists, poets, writers, musicians, and theatre directors have gathered since 1881. Lisa Appignanesi takes us to the original cabaret - the smoke-filled rooms of the Chat Noir in Paris that served as a meeting place for the avant-garde and a laboratory of subversion against the establishment. She then follows the journey of the cabaret across Europe and to the United States, tracing each development in cabaret history to the present day. This much revised and updated edition of Appignanesi's classic work is enriched with materials that have become more accessible in the post-Soviet era. It also features a variety of new illustrations from both East and West. The book provides a lively look at all aspects of cabaret, where art and entertainment join to mock and provoke, and where radical artistic, literary, and political ideas have found expression for more than 120 years.

ISBN 0300105800   Pages 272 ISBN13 9780300105803 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Yale University Press   Weight (grammes) 1060 Imprint Yale University Press   Published in New Haven Format Hardback   Previous ISBN 9780289706121 Publication date 13 Aug 2004   Height (mm) 245 Library of Congress PN1962   Width (mm) 201 DEWEY 792.7   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

"Wonderfully researched and beautifully illustrated [Cabaret is] an admirable supplement to the history of the twentieth century." - Jonathan Miller "Lisa Appignanesi's well-researched and gracefully written Cabaret is as frisky, smart, mischievous, and high-stepping as the art form she comprehensively chronicles." - John Lahr, The New Yorker"

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