Babylon girls black women performers and the shaping of the modern
Title:
Babylon girls black women performers and the shaping of the modern
Author:
Brown, Jayna, 1966-
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
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xi, 339 p. : ill.
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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.
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