HISTORY AND SOCIAL ANALYSIS OF CABARET FROM THE 18th CENTURY TO PRESENT

ITS ORIGIN, SOCIAL MILIEUS, DEVELOPMENT, STYLES, DIVAS AND PIONEERS

INCLUDING: WHO’S WHO OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN FEMALE SINGERS-ENTERTAINERS 

THE BEST AMERICAN FEMALE SINGERS-ENTERTAINERS FROM THE COTTON FIELDS ERA TO PRESENT

 

BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE

 

 

Welcome to the Real Cabaret. The Real Thing!

FRENCH STYLE: THE PARADISE OF LOVE

• American Cabaret and Foreign Traditional Cabarets: Two Worlds Apart!
• American Cabaret singers and foreign traditional Cabaret artists/singers: The difference is like day and night!
• There is no real traditional Cabaret, nor real and authentic Cabaret singers/artists in America.
• The Americanized version of  French and world Cabaret.

To “understand” and “feel” what a CABARET IS, one must be a part of it or at least must have frequented it in its traditional, original and authentic aspect and setting. Cabaret is not an academic subject we study in a university. Cabaret as a theme and as a “human reality” cannot be studied, understood and felt by reading about it or, occasionally attending one of its contemporary acts in flashy dashy nightclubs and ritzy spots in New York or California, or even listening to great American Cabaret Singers such as Barbara Cook, Amanda McBroom, Julie Wilson, et al.

 

Photo: Edith Piaf. She started as a very poor and obscure Cabaret singer at the very beginning of her career, when she was homeless and penniless.  At a very early age, when she was unknown, she sang in low class “boites de nuits”. Once discovered, she categorically refused to sing in Cabarets and strongly refused to be called a “Cabaret Singer”. All her future performances will take place at France’s most prestigious theaters and stages. Never again, to sing in a Cabaret!