Babylon Girls - Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern

Informationen zum Autor Jayna Brown Klappentext "The most exciting piece of scholarship that I've read in ages, "Babylon Girls" succeeds as an extremely ambitious, meticulously researched, brilliantly theorized cultural history. It is a landmark contribution to jazz studies, dance and performance studies, black women's history, studies of minstrelsy, and theories of cross-cultural exchange."--Sherrie Tucker, author of "Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s" Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations for Libraries and Archives xiii Introduction 1 1. "Little Black Me": The Touring Picaninny Choruses 19 2. Letting the Flesh Fly: Topsy, Time, Torture, and Transfiguration 56 3. "Egyptian Beauties" and "Creole Queens": The Performance of City and Empire on the Fin-de-Siecle Black Burlesque Stage 92 4. The Cakewalk Business 128 5. Everybody's Doing It: Social Dance, Segregation, and the New Body 156 6. Babylon Girls: Primitivist Modernism, Anti-Modernism, and Black Chorus Line Dancers 189 7. Translocutions: Florence Mills, Josephine Baker, and Valaida Snow 238 Conclusion 280 Notes 285 Bibliography 313 Index 333

Product details

• Authors: BROWN, Jayna Brown, Jayna Brown
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.2008
• EAN: 9780822341574
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4157-4
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Biografien: allgemein, Ethnic Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Biography / Autobiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies