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Babylon Girls Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern

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ISBN-10: 0822341573

ISBN-13: 9780822341574

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jayna Brown

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 9/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations for Libraries and Archives
Introduction
"Little Black Me": The Touring Picaninny Choruses
Letting the Flesh Fly: Topsy, Time, Torture, and Transfiguration
"Egyptian Beauties" and "Creole Queens": the Performance of City and Empire on the Fin-De-Siecle Black Burlesque Stage
The Cakewalk Business
Everybody's Doing It: Social Dance, Segregation, and the New Body
Babylon Girls: Primitivist Modernism, Anti-Modernism, and Black Chorus Line Dancers
Translocations: Florence Mills, Josephine Baker, and Valaida Snow
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index