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Autore: | Brown Jayna <1966-> |
Titolo: | Babylon girls : black women performers and the shaping of the modern / / Jayna Brown |
Pubblicazione: | Durham, : 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-Siecle 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 |
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