performing arts reference question

[Jean W. Williams]

On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Anne McKnight wrote:

>   The article implies act of
> cross-dressing (?) is at the cutting edge of Meiji 30s honky-tonk pop
> culture...

There is an article I have run across before making a comparison between
"decadence" (including androgyny and cross-dressing) in Tokyo of the
period and that in inter-war Berlin.

I just moved and everything is upside down -- one huge project is to get
all articles organized, filed and indexed on database.  Apologies for not
being able to be more specific.

The article was not in a journal, but in a book (perhaps an anthology?) I
once perused at the New York Public Library.  The editor of the volume was
an immediately recognizable Japanologist -- perhaps Rimer.

Anyway, it's a lead for you.  


Jean Williams
Dept. of Performance Studies
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
jqw3827 at is2.nyu.edu