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Babylon Girls : : Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern

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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-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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PUBLISHED
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: xi, 339 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780822341338 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822341336 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822341574 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822341573 (pbk. : alk. paper)

SUBJECTS
African American women entertainers -- Biography.
African American women in popular culture.