CABARET VILLE MAGAZINE. P312.

AMERICAN CABARET VERSUS EUROPEAN CABARET

By Maximillien de Lafayette

ANALOGY BETWEEN AUTHENTIC FOREIGN CABARET SINGERS AND LEGITIMATE AMERICAN FEMALE  CABARET SINGERS

CABARET is a French product. It cannot be authentically duplicated, franchised or Americanized, no matter, how talented and creative an American female artist is. It can be Americanized, Africanized, Middle Easternized or even “nationalized”, but it would never be the same, for it will loose its original cache and character. Cabaret is for the French what hamburger, ketchup, stocks, mortgages, Campbell Soup Cans, blue jeans, patriotism, politics,  college basketball, courage and football are for the Americans. A historical perspective, origin, needs, nature and development of Cabaret in France, Europe and the Middle/Near East are provided later on in various parts of this work. But, for now, let’s focus on the most important issues of this article and  which in part are illustrated in some of the following questions:

 

1-  Why Europeans, Middle/Near Easterners and Americans go to cabaret?

2-      What Cabaret does represent to Europeans, Middle/Near Easterners and Americans? How they understand and define cabaret? What do they expect to see, hear and get when they go to a Cabaret? CONTINUES NEXT