Marybeth Hamilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marybeth Hamilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marybeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMILTON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Feminism, Artistry, Madness, and the Ghost of Valerie Solanas
Valerie Solanas holds an unsettled place in feminist history, notorious for both her incendiary 1967 diatribe the SCUM Manifesto and her near-fatal 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol. This paper explores the tangled links between Solanas and women's liberation: how the movement briefly commandeered her as a feminist martyr and how, on her release from psychiatric prison, Solanas sought to regain control of her story. In the process it asks how Solanas'…
Radical History as Collective Endeavour: Joining History Workshop Journal in the Present Crisis
This roundtable records a conversation among a group of current History Workshop Journal editors, held initially over Zoom, with some remarks added later to the online transcript. With longtime editor Marybeth Hamilton serving as interviewer, the discussion brought together the seven historians who were then the most recent additions to the HWJ editorial collective: Elly Robson Dezateux, Meleisa Ono-George, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Rob Priest, Han…
On the Trail of Negro Folk Songs
The Voice of the Blues
For the last two decades, the Delta blues – envisioned as a music of pain and privation, alienation and anguish - has provided a luminous focus for a revitalised African-American history, one engaged with the experience of the forgotten and faceless black masses. Yet historians' vision of the authentic blues voice bears little resemblance to the music embraced by early black record buyers, a music that was overtly sexual, that pulsed with the rhy…
The Blues, the Folk, and African-American History
ON a stifling Saturday in Texas in June 1937 a twenty-six-year-old African-American musician, Robert Johnson, stepped to the microphone in a makeshift recording studio in a disused warehouse atop a Buick showroom. Johnson had grabbed a ride west from his native Mississippi to make it to the recording session in Dallas, one more journey in a life that had been spent by and large on the road. In contemporary parlance, he was a songster: an itineran…
From Mae to Madonna: Women Entertainers in Twentieth-Century America
Journal Article From Mae to Madonna: Women Entertainers in Twentieth-Century America. By June Sochen. (Lexington, Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville. By M. Alison Kibler. (Chapel Hill and Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema. By Linda Mizejewski. (Durham Get access Marybeth Hamilton Marybeth Hamilton Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author o…
When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment
Journal Article When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment. By Marybeth Hamilton. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii, 307 pp. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-520-21094-8.) Get access Andrea Friedman Andrea Friedman Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1638–1639, https://…
Mae West Live: SEX, The Drag, and 1920s Broadway
Mae West. The name brings familiar images immediately to mind: the platinum hair, the swaying hourglass figure, the ironically murmured invitation to come up and see me. Few movie voices are as instantly recognizable; few performance styles as widely, and amusingly, imitated. From a movie career that spanned only ten films, West made herself into an enduring cinema legend-a performer who continues to fascinate a decade after her death
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment
Journal Article When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment. By Marybeth Hamilton. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii, 307 pp. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-520-21094-8.) Get access Andrea Friedman Andrea Friedman Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1638–1639, https://…
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Mae West Live: SEX, The Drag, and 1920s Broadway
Mae West. The name brings familiar images immediately to mind: the platinum hair, the swaying hourglass figure, the ironically murmured invitation to come up and see me. Few movie voices are as instantly recognizable; few performance styles as widely, and amusingly, imitated. From a movie career that spanned only ten films, West made herself into an enduring cinema legend-a performer who continues to fascinate a decade after her death
When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment
Journal Article When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment. By Marybeth Hamilton. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii, 307 pp. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-520-21094-8.) Get access Andrea Friedman Andrea Friedman Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1638–1639, https://…
From Mae to Madonna: Women Entertainers in Twentieth-Century America
Journal Article From Mae to Madonna: Women Entertainers in Twentieth-Century America. By June Sochen. (Lexington, Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville. By M. Alison Kibler. (Chapel Hill and Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema. By Linda Mizejewski. (Durham Get access Marybeth Hamilton Marybeth Hamilton Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author o…
The Blues, the Folk, and African-American History
ON a stifling Saturday in Texas in June 1937 a twenty-six-year-old African-American musician, Robert Johnson, stepped to the microphone in a makeshift recording studio in a disused warehouse atop a Buick showroom. Johnson had grabbed a ride west from his native Mississippi to make it to the recording session in Dallas, one more journey in a life that had been spent by and large on the road. In contemporary parlance, he was a songster: an itineran…
The Voice of the Blues
For the last two decades, the Delta blues – envisioned as a music of pain and privation, alienation and anguish - has provided a luminous focus for a revitalised African-American history, one engaged with the experience of the forgotten and faceless black masses. Yet historians' vision of the authentic blues voice bears little resemblance to the music embraced by early black record buyers, a music that was overtly sexual, that pulsed with the rhy…
On the Trail of Negro Folk Songs
Feminism, Artistry, Madness, and the Ghost of Valerie Solanas
Valerie Solanas holds an unsettled place in feminist history, notorious for both her incendiary 1967 diatribe the SCUM Manifesto and her near-fatal 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol. This paper explores the tangled links between Solanas and women's liberation: how the movement briefly commandeered her as a feminist martyr and how, on her release from psychiatric prison, Solanas sought to regain control of her story. In the process it asks how Solanas'…
Radical History as Collective Endeavour: Joining History Workshop Journal in the Present Crisis
This roundtable records a conversation among a group of current History Workshop Journal editors, held initially over Zoom, with some remarks added later to the online transcript. With longtime editor Marybeth Hamilton serving as interviewer, the discussion brought together the seven historians who were then the most recent additions to the HWJ editorial collective: Elly Robson Dezateux, Meleisa Ono-George, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Rob Priest, Han…
History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Art history (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · History (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (3 works)