Babylon girls : black women performers and the shaping of the modern

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

"Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows - chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret acts, and the like - between 1890 and 1945. Through a consideration of the gestures, costuming, vocal techniques, and stagecraft developed b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Jayna, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
African American women entertainers > Biography.
Women, Black > United States > Drama.
African American women entertainers.
Women, Black.
United States.
Biographies.
Drama.
Online Access:ViewTable of contents
Table of Contents:
  • 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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