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

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"Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking 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. Through a consideration of the gestures, costuming, vocal techniques, and stagecraft developed b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Jayna, 1966-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2008]
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
African American women entertainers > Biography.
Femmes artistes du spectacle noires américaines > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African American women entertainers
Sängerin
Tänzerin
Varieté
Schauspielerin
Afroamerikanischer Tanz > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Afroamerikanische Tänzerin > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Schauspielerin.
Künstlerin.
Tänzerin.
Kabarett.
Entertainerin.
Afro-amerikanskor.
Underhållningsartister > Förenta staterna > sekelskiftet 1900 > 1900-talet.
Populärkultur.
Afro-Américain (peuple) > artiste (femme) > musique de variétés > Etats-Unis > 1890 > 1945.
Afro-amerikanska kvinnor > biografi.
Afro-amerikanska kvinnor i populärkulturen.
Underhållare.
USA
Schwärze
Schwarze.
USA.
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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-Siécle 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.

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