Cultural history of African American women's popular performance between 1890 and 1945, focusing on performers from the variety, music hall, and cabaret stages.
Cultural history of African American women's popular performance between 1890 and 1945, focusing on performers from the variety, music hall, and cabaret stages.
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
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
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