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

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Main Author: Brown, Jayna, 1966-
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
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Physical Description:xi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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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-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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