[lbo-talk] Theory of Porn

[kelley at pulpculture.org]

At 10:15 AM 2/5/2004, Charles Brown wrote:
>Hey, is burlesque a genre (transgressive) ? that has been around since the 
>custom of wearing clothes became law ?
>
>C

you're such a lacanian!

http://www.musicals101.com/burlesque.htm (just thort it was interesting and 
in keeping with the Sigel book review I posted last night re: class and porn)

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1373/n12_v46/18967470/p1/article.jhtml 
(interestingly in keep with Katrina Hazard Gordon (diff name now) who wrote 
Jookin'. The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture. 
Gordon in a talk extending the thesis of the book shows how dance in the 
20th shifted from couple dancing reflecting a once dominate social norm, 
coupling and marriage, to an individualist form, reflecting another norm, 
that of singlehood. Gordon doesn't chalk it up to pathology, of course, but 
to deindustrialization, the legalization of gambling, and the vagaries of 
the drug trade (resulting in a decline of opportunities for people to make 
money hustling as a way to supplement their incomes)

http://www.anatomyofburlesque.com/history.htm more on burlesque as a genre 
useful for a truncated form of class warfare.

smoochiez,

googlegrrrrRl (bored with work!)