Jayna Brown

Babylon Girls

Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341574
• ISBN-10: 0822341573
• Artikelnr.: 23880713

Autorenporträt

Jayna Brown is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

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