Sujets :
Artistes du spectacle - Histoire - 20e siècle
Histoire

Dépouillement du document :
Vaudeville Under the Sign of "the Indian"
1st Vaudeville Number : Will Rogers Makes His Rope Speak
Go-won-go Mohawk, "Aboriginally Yours"
2nd Vaudeville Number : Princess Watahwaso and Young Chief Poolaw Sing "Indian Love Call"
Princess White Deer, Her Family, and Her Show Blanket
3rd Vaudeville Number : Molly Spotted Elk Does the Charleston with John Ford's the Iron Horse
How Princess Chinquilla Found Herself in Montana
4th Vaudeville Number : Princess Wahletka Shifts Race and Reads Minds
Chester Dieck, "Winnetou on a Bicycle"
Conclusion

Résumé :
Drawing from little-known archives, Christine Bold brings to light forgotten histories of Indigenous performers in vaudeville and, by extension, popular culture and modernity. Vaudeville was both a forerunner of modern mass entertainment and a rich site of popular Indigenous performance and notions of Indianness at the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the stories of artists Native to Turtle Island (North America) performing across the continent and around the world, Bold illustrates a network of more than 300 Indigenous and Indigenous-identifying entertainers, from Will Rogers to Go-won-go Mohawk to Princess Chinquilla, who upend vaudeville's received history. These fascinating stories cumulatively reveal vaudeville as a space in which the making of western modernity both denied and relied on living Indigenous presence, and in which Indigenous artists negotiated agency and stereotypes through vaudeville performance.

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Littérature anglaise

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