Burlesque


Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese
The Burlesque Handbook
Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture
Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind
Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America
Burlesque: A Living History
The Queens of Burlesque: Vintage Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s
Gypsy: A Memoir
Burlesque Poster Design: The Art of Tease
Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique
The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque
The Bare Truth: Stars of Burlesque from the '40s and '50s
Burlesque: Legendary Stars of the Stage
Kustom Kamera by Yahya El-DroubieKustom Kulture by Ron TurnerKustom Graphics by Julian BalmeKustom Graphics 2 by Art ChantryTiki Mugs by Jay Strongman
Kustom Kulture
19 books — 4 voters

Life Turns Man Up and Down by Kurt Thometz1929 and Mad Balls by Louis AragonThe Book of Zines by Chip RoweSin-a-Rama by Adam ParfreyThree Naughty French Novels by Alfred de Musset
Löwenbrow
104 books — 3 voters
Behind the Burly Q by Leslie ZemeckisUltimate Burlesque by Alyson FixterLysistrata by AristophanesBurlesque Poster Design by Chaz RoyalBurlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of th... by Dita Von Teese
Books About Burlesque
12 books — 2 voters

True Love and Other Disasters by Rachel GibsonStripped by Jasinda WilderRock Hard by Olivia CunningLover Undercover by Samanthe BeckSeize Me by Crystal Spears
Shimmy: Strippers in Romance
118 books — 26 voters
A Tempest Soul by Oliver PhippsThe Everyday Dancer by Deborah BullBlood Memory by Martha GrahamDance with Me by Luanne RiceTo Dance by Siena Cherson Siegel
Dance both fiction and non fiction
209 books — 12 voters

Stefan Diamante
I have no respect for burlesque or its practitioners. Brag all they want about being higher class than real strippers, they’re quick to seek bachelor parties on the down low. Hoping to make money for a change. And I’ve never known a burlesque entertainer who wasn’t a drug addict and/or a communist. Not sure which is worse. It’s communist.
Stefan Diamante, Naked Ambition: A Male Stripper's True Account of Making Girls Behave Badly

Hank Bracker
The Hudson Burlesque Of all the theaters I miss from that era, the Hudson Theatre tops the list. It was built in what was then called Union Hill, early in December 1907. We called it the Hudson Burlesque, and it featured striptease artists such as Lili St. Cyr, Gypsy Rose Lee and Tempest Storm. Being too young to get into the theatre on my own, I usually offered an adult standing in line some money to take me in. Once inside, I would head for the front of the theatre to the fire exit on the righ ...more
Captain Hank Bracker

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