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Fame Us
In this stunning book, photographer Brian Howell takes us into the world of celebrity impersonators—the faux famous people who make a living at pretending to be someone else. Taken at various impersonator conventions and stage shows throughout North America, the photographs are both startling and poignant—for all of the frivolity and double takes ("Isn't that Paris Hilton?") there is also a sense of the real person beneath the makeup and the artifice. Accompanying the portraits are first-person narratives by many of the subjects, many of whom feel personally close to those they are impersonating, even if they have never met them. In addition, in two essays, cultural critic Norbert Ruebsa...
Who's Not Who
Who’s Not Who by Bea Fogelman is a creative work that presents the author’s presentation of performers, agents, producers and a wide array of the people behind the curtain who create the World of Celebrity Impersonations./p Closely following her original books of CopyCats, this sequel, Who’s Not Who answers the demand of their fans who have sought to learn more enlightening facts about this aspect of show business. How the performers came to emulate a particular star and how their talents are used on stage, movies and television. This book introduces the people who present the Celebrity Impersonator to their audiences; they are the agents, producers, musicians, promotion and others behind the curtain. She provides an accessible glimpse into the lives of these talented individuals including a diverse assortment of photographs, offering a rich overview of a distinctive subject. If you have ever seen a show with Celebrity Impersonators, you will love this book.
Daily Doubles 2: Celebrity Impersonators
A coffee-table book of photos, bios and interviews of entertainers who work as celebrity impersonators, tribute artists and lookalikes.
You Sound Just Like...
Unique among the various types of impersonation entertainers, a tribute artist concentrates on only a few of a famous singer's notable characteristics in order to effectively evoke that performer through song. This book explores the elements of tribute performance through case studies of performers who pay homage to legendary singers like Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis. Drawing on original interviews with tribute artists, biographical profiles chronicle performers' early careers, musical influences and their lives on the road. A few performers even reflect on their friendships with musical titans like Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and The Crickets. Forty tribute artists are profiled, including winners of the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, Million Dollar Quartet alumni and several European performers.
Multivocality
Multivocality frames vocality as a way to investigate the voice in music, as a concept encompassing all the implications with which voice is inscribed-the negotiation of sound and Self, individual and culture, medium and meaning, ontology and embodiment. Like identity, vocality is fluid and constructed continually; even the most iconic of singers do not simply exercise a static voice throughout a lifetime. As 21st century singers habitually perform across styles, genres, cultural contexts, histories, and identities, the author suggests that they are not only performing in multiple vocalities, but more critically, they are performing multivocality-creating and recreating identity through the ...
CopyCats
If you have ever seen a show with celebrity impersonators you will love this book! In CopyCats these talented performers reveal how they came to emulate particular stars, offer a glimpse into their professional and personal lives, as well as disclose enlightening facts about this aspect of show business.
Art and Celebrity
A lively and accessible study of what happens when the ‘serious’ world of art collides with celebrity.
The Possibility Machine
Singular and star-studded writings on America’s neon-lit playground At once a Technicolor wonderland and the embodiment of American mythology, Las Vegas exists at the Ground Zero of a reverence for risk-taking and the transformative power of a winning hand. Jake Johnson edits a collection of short essays and flash ideas that probes how music-making and soundscapes shape the City of Second Chances. Treating topics ranging from Cher to Cirque de Soleil, the contributors delve into how music and musicians factored in the early development of Vegas’s image; the role of local communities of musicians and Strip mainstays in sustaining tensions between belief and disbelief; the ways aging showr...
ShowTime
Has anyone ever told you that you look like a celebrity? Elvis or Marilyn? Cher or Madonna? Bush or Donald Trump, perhaps? The 4th in her series of Entertainment books, author Bea Fogelman introduces the role of the Actor into the world of the Impersonator, the Look-alike, the Voice-Over and the Impressionist. With her assortment of photographs, the novice and professional performer receives a view of the Artists and how they came to emulate the celebrities. ShowTime provides a Directory of Agents, Producers other forms of entertainment as well as allied services to the Industry. This is an “open door” to the wonderful World of Entertainment.
