Babylon girls : black women performers and the shaping of the modern / / Jayna Brown.

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Physical Description:xi, 339 p. :; ill.
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245 1 0 |a Babylon girls  |h [electronic resource] :  |b black women performers and the shaping of the modern /  |c Jayna Brown. 
260 |a Durham :  |b Duke University Press,  |c 2008. 
300 |a xi, 339 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
650 0 |a African American women entertainers  |v Biography. 
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