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  1. “All the Evil Music Has:” Musical Representations of the Vamp in Interwar American Popular Media

    <p>This dissertation explores the vamp as a symbol of sociosexual deviance in film and American popular music of the 1910s and ‘20s. Abbreviated from vampire, “vamp” came to be used as a term for sexually voracious and predatory women in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century. Following the …

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