Babylon girls [electronic resource] : black women performers and the shaping of the modern / Jayna Brown.
Material type: TextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008Description: xi, 339 p. : illSubject(s): African American women entertainers -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: PN2286 | .B76 2008Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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