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Cultural history question: screaming fangirls?
So, I was watching a cartoon from 1944, Swooner Crooner (link is a brief excerpt), and it featured a trope I didn't think went back that far: that of fangirls screaming and fainting at the presence of famous musicians. I was familiar with it from The Beatles and Elvis, but had no idea it went back to "Frankie" Sinatra and his generation. So how far back *does* it go?
(One could argue for the Bacchantes being the prototype, but I'm looking for more early 20th / late 19th century examples.)
(One could argue for the Bacchantes being the prototype, but I'm looking for more early 20th / late 19th century examples.)