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Babylon girls : black women performers and the shaping of the modern. Jayna Brown

Brown, Jayna [1962-] 2008

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  • Title:
    Babylon girls : black women performers and the shaping of the modern. Jayna Brown
  • Author: Brown, Jayna [1962-]
  • Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008
  • Subjects: African American women entertainers -- Biography;
    Femmes artistes interprètes -- Biographies -- États-Unis
  • Includes: Bibliogr. p. 313-332. Notes bibliogr. Index
    Introduct ion 1. "Little Black Me" : The Touring Picaninny Choruses 2. Letting the Flesh Fly: Topsy, time, Torture, and Transfiguration 3. "Egyptian Beauties" and "Creole Queens" : The Performance of City and Empire on the Fin-de-Siécle Black Burlesque Stage 4. The cakewalk business 5. Everybody's Doing It : Social Dance, Segregation, and the New Body 6. Babylon Girls : Primitivist Modernism, Anti-modernism, and Black Chorus Line Dancers 7. Translocations : Florence Mills, Josephine Baker, and Valaida Snow Conclusion
  • lds03: Introduct ion 1. "Little Black Me" : The Touring Picaninny Choruses 2. Letting the Flesh Fly: Topsy, time, Torture, and Transfiguration 3. "Egyptian Beauties" and "Creole Queens" : The Performance of City and Empire on the Fin-de-Siécle Black Burlesque Stage 4. The cakewalk business 5. Everybody's Doing It : Social Dance, Segregation, and the New Body 6. Babylon Girls : Primitivist Modernism, Anti-modernism, and Black Chorus Line Dancers 7. Translocations : Florence Mills, Josephine Baker, and Valaida Snow Conclusion
  • Language: English
  • Creation Date: 2008
  • Identifier: 978-0-8223-4133-8 ; 0-8223-4133-6 ; 978-0-8223-4157-4 ; 0-8223-4157-3
  • Format: 1 vol. (xi-339 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
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