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- Title
LEE TUNG FOO AND THE MAKING OF A CHINESE AMERICAN VAUDEVILLIAN, 1900s–1920s.
- Authors
Moon, Krystyn R.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the relationship between Chinese American Vaudeville performer, Frank Lee, better known as Lee Tung Foo, and European American voice teacher, Margaret Blake Alverson, who was also his mentor. The author notes that Lee's and Alverson's personal writings, including his letters and her memoir titled "Sixty Years of California Song," offer insight into their relationship, Lee's experiences and struggles on and off stage, and racial attitudes in the early 1900s.
- Subjects
LEE Tung Foo; ALVERSON, Margaret Blake; VAUDEVILLE; CHINESE Americans; EUROPEAN Americans; FRIENDSHIP; STEREOTYPES; RACISM
- Publication
Journal of Asian American Studies, 2005, Vol 8, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
1097-2129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jaas.2005.0031