Filling the embarrassment of silence: Erotic performance on "blue discs"

Jacob Smith

doi:10.1525/fq.2004.58.2.26

Filling the embarrassment of silence: Erotic performance on "blue discs"

Jacob Smith^*

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Radio, Television, and Film

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Abstract

The study of a genre of phonographic recordings called blue discs, made between the 1930s and 1950s, can help to bridge the gap between an oral tradition of erotic performance and film pornography, and also provide a case study in the use of women's voices in the sound media.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	26-35
Number of pages	10
Journal	Film Quarterly
Volume	58
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2004.58.2.26
State	Published - Dec 1 2005

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