"God's Gift to Us Girls": Crooning, Gender, and the Re-Creation of American Popular Song, 1928-1933
1999; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 17; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3052656
ISSN1945-2349
Autores Tópico(s)Theater, Performance, and Music History
Resumo[After sings with the band] The audience goes mad. A murmur of delight rises like a tidal wave, becomes an envious moan, pants into a yearning sob, and dies down.... Suddenly picks up a megaphone, stands quietly at the corner of the stage and begins to sing. The audience holds its breath in joy, in adoration. The words drift from the megaphone like a caress, a billet doux for each gasping female in the vast theatre.... When he stops, the audience's breath, held in an exquisite agony of waiting, is unleashed.... The audience is enraptured, fanatical. It has been carried up Parnassus on this insinuating, wooing voice. He is their darling, their Song Lover. Give us Vallee.. this tall, slender, simple boy, with his blond, wavy hair, his tanned face, his blue eyes, and his gentle voice that makes love so democratically to everyone. Martha Gellhorn, Rudy Vallee: God's Gift to Us Girls, New Republic, Aug. 5, 1929
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