Babylon Girls

Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern

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Brown, Jayna

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback

360 Seiten

Englisch

Duke University Presserschienen am19.09.2008

Presents a cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows - chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret acts, and the like - between 1890 and 1945. This book describes the strange phenomenon of blackface performances by women, both black and white, and considers how black expressive artists navigated racial segregation.mehr

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KlappentextPresents a cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows - chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret acts, and the like - between 1890 and 1945. This book describes the strange phenomenon of blackface performances by women, both black and white, and considers how black expressive artists navigated racial segregation.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8223-4157-4

ProduktartTaschenbuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

FormatTrade Paperback (USA)

Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2008

Erscheinungsdatum19.09.2008

Seiten360 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 226 mm, Dicke 23 mm

Gewicht476 g

Artikel-Nr.14540368

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GenreRomane Taschenbuch

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Acknowledgments ixAbbreviations for Libraries and Archives xiiiIntroduction 11. "Little Black Me": The Touring Picaninny Choruses 192. Letting the Flesh Fly: Topsy, Time, Torture, and Transfiguration 563. "Egyptian Beauties" and "Creole Queens": The Performance of City and Empire on the Fin-de-Siecle Black Burlesque Stage 924. The Cakewalk Business 1285. Everybody's Doing It: Social Dance, Segregation, and the New Body 1566. Babylon Girls: Primitivist Modernism, Anti-Modernism, and Black Chorus Line Dancers 1897. Translocutions: Florence Mills, Josephine Baker, and Valaida Snow 238Conclusion 280Notes 285Bibliography 313Index 333mehr