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Author:

Brown, Jayna, 1966-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xi, 339 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American women entertainers--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-332) and index.

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-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.

ISBN:

0822341573 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822341574 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)213375889

LCCN:

2008011050

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)