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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Table of 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.