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 |
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 | ||
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