Babylon girls: black women performers and the shaping of the modern / Jayna Brown.
Brown, Jayna, 1966-
2008
PN2286 .B76 2008
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Title Babylon girls: black women performers and the shaping of the modern / Jayna Brown.
Author Brown, Jayna, 1966-
ISBN 9780822390695
0822390698
9780822341338 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822341336 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822341574 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822341573 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 339 pages ) : illustrations
Call Number PN2286 .B76 2008
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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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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