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Babylon girls : black women performers and the shaping of the modern / / Jayna Brown
Babylon girls : black women performers and the shaping of the modern / / Jayna Brown
Autore Brown Jayna <1966->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Durham ; ; London, : Duke University Press, 2008
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (356 pages)
Disciplina 791.092/39607
Soggetto topico African American women entertainers
ISBN 128035707
9786613035707
082239069-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910777993603321
Brown Jayna <1966->  
Durham ; ; London, : Duke University Press, 2008
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Babylon girls : black women performers and the shaping of the modern / / Jayna Brown
Babylon girls : black women performers and the shaping of the modern / / Jayna Brown
Autore Brown Jayna <1966->
Pubbl/distr/stampa 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
ISBN 128035707
9786613035707
082239069-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910824907303321
Brown Jayna <1966->  
Durham ; ; London, : Duke University Press, 2008
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui