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Babylon girls : black women performers and the shaping of the modern / Jayna Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Jayna, 1966-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women entertainers--Biography.
- African American women entertainers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Cultural history of African American women's popular performance between 1890 and 1945, focusing on performers from the variety, music hall, and cabaret stages.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on PDF (viewed on 21st June 2021)
- ISBN:
- 9786613035707
- 9781283035705
- 1283035707
- 9780822390695
- 0822390698
- OCLC:
- 271240699
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