The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers: Dancing, Sex, and by A. Shay

By A. Shay

analyzing performers from the traditional Mediterranean global to the trendy Islamic heart East, together with India and Pakistan, Shay explores the careers, inventive performances, and legacies of those people who have been compelled to supply leisure and paintings for, and feature intercourse with, any and all patrons.

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