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Moving performances : divas, iconicity, and remembering the modern stage / Jeanne Scheper.
LIBRA PN1590.B53 S34 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scheper, Jeanne, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women entertainers--History--20th century.
- African American women entertainers.
- Women entertainers--United States--History--20th century.
- Women entertainers.
- African Americans in the performing arts.
- Women in the performing arts--United States.
- Women in the performing arts.
- Performing arts--Political aspects--United States--20th century.
- Performing arts.
- Performing arts--Social aspects--United States--20th century.
- Race relations.
- Performing arts--Social aspects.
- Performing arts--Political aspects.
- History.
- United States--Race relations--20th century.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 209 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The color line is always moving: Aida Overton Walker
- Transnational technologies of orientalism: Loïe Fuller's invented repertoires
- Voices within the voice: aural passing and Libby Holman's deracinated/reracinated sound
- "Much too busy to die": Josephine Baker's diva iconicity
- Conclusion: diva remains.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813585451
- 0813585457
- 9780813585444
- 0813585449
- OCLC:
- 938855775
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