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1. The Public Entertainer -- 2. The Contours of Masculinity and Public Entertainers in Ancient Greece -- 3. The Contours of Masculinity and the Public Entertainer in Rome, Hellenistic Greece, and Byzantium -- 4. Medieval Islam: The Caliphate in Damascus, Baghdad, Cordoba, Cairo, and Beyond -- 5. After the Caliphate: Early Modern Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Iran, Mughal India-The Heyday of Islamic Gunpowder Empires -- 6. The Long Nineteenth Century: The Qajars, the Ottomans, Egypt, and Colonialism -- 7. The Twentieth and the Twenty-First Centuries: Modernity and Nationalism.

"This study addresses the history of the public entertainer, dancers, singers, actors, and others from ancient Greece and Rome into the Islamic world from its inception to the present day. Reviled, despised, but deeply desired and alluring, the public entertainer came from abject backgrounds--slaves, orphans, minority groups--and served as models of how not to behave through their scandalous lives"