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Article: First of the Red Hot Mamas: "Coon Shouting" and the Jewish Ziegfeld Girl.
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- American Jewish History
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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Jewish women vaudevillians at the turn of the century popularized what is now a little-discussed and misunderstood performance venue, known as "coon shouting." These once well-known, now obscure popular entertainers were crossing and breaking racial and gender boundaries, enacting narratives of immigration and Americanization on the Jewish female body. Coon shouting, the last descendent of the nineteenth-century minstrel show, represented not only popular theatre's transition from blackface minstrelsy to American vaudeville, but found currency in and capitalized on the suppressed identities of these Jewish performers. Provocative ambiguity fueled the racial uncertainty, ...
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... ... spirit of Sophie - robust, defiant - triumphs. "I Don't Want to Get Thin!" sings the first and last of the red-hot mamas, smugly announcing that her boyfriends all have skinny wives at home, and "I'm Living Alone and I Like It ...
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