Excavating Storyville

05 Dec 18 - 05:13 PM (#3965011)
Subject: Excavating Storyville
From: Jack Campin

The archæology of sleaze:

Independent report

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06 Dec 18 - 01:13 AM (#3965048)
Subject: RE: Excavating Storyville
From: michaelr

Fascinating stuff!

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06 Dec 18 - 09:37 AM (#3965086)
Subject: RE: Excavating Storyville
From: GUEST,Guest

I saw this, and found aspects of it very annoying as it had no references and there is a lot of nonsense talked about the House of Rising Sun song which the article did not address. But I agree it is interesting and might have started a thread on it had Mudcat not seemed to be offline all day yesterday! So thanks, Jack.

There are a number of threads here which illustrate the different ideas.

And some of the 'facts' reported aren't as clear-cut as they appear. For example, the idea that rouge-pots equals prostitutes has been challenged. It seems that some men (dandies) made use of rouge, for example.

Here is a more academic report, which does discuss the rouge 'controversy' in a little more detail.

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06 Dec 18 - 09:38 AM (#3965088)
Subject: RE: Excavating Storyville
From: GUEST,Guest

http://home.uchicago.edu/~sdawdy/risingsun/RisingSun%20complete.pdf


The missing link....

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06 Dec 18 - 10:02 AM (#3965094)
Subject: RE: Excavating Storyville
From: GUEST,Guest

Here's another article on the topic

https://www.academia.edu/1440309/Beneath_the_Rising_Sun_Frenchness_and_the_archaeology_of_desire

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