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

• Autore: Brown Jayna <1966->
• Pubblicazione: Durham ; ; London, : Duke University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 pages)
• Disciplina: 791.092/39607; 791.092396073
• Soggetto topico: African American women entertainers
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Cultural history of African American women's popular performance between 1890 and 1945, focusing on performers from the variety, music hall, and cabaret stages.
• Titolo autorizzato: Babylon girls
• ISBN: 128035707; 9786613035707; 082239069-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824907303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II