Thread: burlesque books

i would like to buy some books, any suggestions for the best ones to buy?

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The Jessica Glasscock book on Striptease is great - well researched and beautifully presented.

It depends on what you are looking for too though. My burlesque book library also has all sorts which are not specifically to do with the American burlesque:

The Burlesque Comedies of Aristophanes
Burlesques: William Makepeace-Thackeray
Burlesque plays of the 18th Century
Queen of Burlesque - Lydia Thompson, Biography
Madame Vestris and Her Times
Madame Vestris: A Theatrical Biography
Gilbert & Sullivan: A Dual Biography
Blue Ribbons and Burlesque (A book of country fairs)
Various reprints of scripts of classical and musical burlesque (Kessinger) Kessinger Publishing - Rare Reprints of Hard to Find Books

This is a great book on musical-comedy and burlesque - http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshe...-and-burlesque

various out-of-print publications too:

Victorian Popular Music
The Can-Can
Les Folllies Bergere

For fun fiction, I recommend Immodesty's [ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tease-Immodesty-Blaize/dp/0091930014"]Tease[/ame] novel

This should also help with people searching for book recommendations in the future!

Threads:
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...-research.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...resources.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...s-now-mob.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...el-shteir.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...z-goldwyn.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...ian-co-uk.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...-any-good.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...-up-books.html (there are many direct links to web-resources in this thread)
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...-pressies.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...iterature.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...-bookworm.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...air-books.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...p-n-grind.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...book-sale.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...sque-read.html (novel)

Books that have appeared in these threads:
Pretty Things (Liz Goldwyn)
Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind (Michelle Baldwin)
Happy Stripper: Pleasures & Politics of New Burlesque (Jackie Wilson)
Velvet Hammer Burlesque
Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture
The New Burlesque
The Bare Truth: Stars of Burlesque From the '40s and '50s
The Queens of Burlesque: Vintage Photographs of the 1940s and 1950s
Striptease: From Gaslight To Spotlight (Jessica Glasscock)
Striptease: The Untold History Of The Girlie Show (Rachel Shteir)
Gypsy: The Art of the Tease (Rachel Shteir)
Gypsy: A Memoir
My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage With Gypsy Rose Lee
Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind
Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America
Lingerie: A Lexicon of Style
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Sexy
Foxy Forever: How to Be Foxy at Fifty, Sexy at Sixty and Fabulous Forever
...And Men My Fuel
My Face for the World To See
My First 2000 Men
Honey, Blue Ribbons and Burlesque: A Book of Country Fairs
Lysistrata, The Best Burlesque Sketches
MINSKY'S BURLESQUE, A Bit of Burlesque
Queen of Burlesque: The Autobiography of Yvette Paris
Bawdy Songs of the Early Music Hall
Only a Paper Moon: The Theatre of Billy Rose
THE BODY MERCHANT: The Story of Earl Carroll
The S Factor: Strip Workouts for Every Woman
Eve's Striptease
Naked Is the Best Disguise: My Life As a Stripper
Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratization of Desire
Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power
Burlesque and the Art of the Teese
G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
Ivy League Stripper, Striptease Chicago
Full Monty Handbook: How to Undress for Success
The Lusty Lady: Fotografien und Texte
Norma Jean: My Secret Life with Marilyn Monroe
A Pictorial History of Striptease
GUILTY PLEASURES: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna
Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars
The American Burlesque Show
Burleycue: An Underground History of Burlesque Days
This Was Burlesque, Vaudeville from the Honky Tonks to the Palace
A Pictorial History of Burlesque
From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film
The Cotton Club: A Pictorial and Social History of the Most Famous Symbol of the Jazz Era
Les Folies Du Music Hall: A History of the Music Hall in Paris
British Music Hall: A Story in Pictures, Looking for Little Egypt
Loie Fuller: Goddess of Light
Mistinguette: La Reine Du Music-Hall
Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism
An Evening at The Garden of Allah: A Gay Cabaret
Oscar Wilde's Salome
The Ziegfeld Touch: The Life and Times of Florenz Ziegfeld
Lydia Thompson: Queen of Burlesque
Lapdancer
Berlin Cabaret (Studies in Cultural History)
Dance Naked: A Stripper's Guide to Life, Carnival Strippers
Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design (Deborah Nadoolman Landis)
The Corset: A Cultural History (Valerie Steele)
Vintage: Art of Dressing up (Tracy Tolkien)

Dont forget my 'Strange & Beautiful' Uk Burlesque books, if you wanna see some modern british ladies at work

wow thanks guys this is a great list to get me started, the only problem is now is that il want to buy the lot! lol

I know what you mean Ruby, I want to own all of those eventually - Beatrix you couldn't perhaps nominate 5 or so must reads or favourites from that list to get us started (and for me to put on my Christmas wish list) could you?

Originally Posted by tempest devyne

I know what you mean Ruby, I want to own all of those eventually - Beatrix you couldn't perhaps nominate 5 or so must reads or favourites from that list to get us started (and for me to put on my Christmas wish list) could you?

Well, of that list, I've enjoyed:
Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind (Michelle Baldwin)
Velvet Hammer Burlesque
Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture

...but I'd also recommend

[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Behind-G-string-Exploration-Strippers-Meaning/dp/0786418494/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255010972&sr=8-1]Behind the G-string: An Exploration of the Stripper's Image, Her Person and Her Meaning: Amazon.co.uk: David A. Scott: Books[/ame]

And I read any blogs/biographies that I can get my hands on!!