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Table of Contents: “…Re-vamping Asia : women, music, and modernity in comparative perspective / Andrew N. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Red Noir -- Revenants -- Yellowed Parchment -- Nipples Like Thorns Piercing Thoughts -- Relocation on the Edge -- 78 rpms on a Piper's Dream -- Wichita Down West Home -- Cold Meat &amp -- Three Empty Shells -- Lady Sings the Blues 1969 -- Thirty Seconds over America -- Requiem for a Nest -- Almost Pregnant -- Meanwhile in San Francisco -- Art &amp -- Embellishment -- Cool Cats Snap Spats -- Things Go Sour -- Red Noir -- Red Eye &amp -- Black Beans -- Los Angeles Nocturne -- II. Ostinato Vamps -- Broken Rhythms -- Jazz Theory 101 -- Dream Fever -- Ostinato Vamp -- Plum Hunger -- Soul Traveler -- Mahalia Jones -- The Boys of Loco Heights -- Fragments of an Essay -- Straight Out of Autumn -- Likes Tangerine Sushi -- A Second Death -- After the Rampage -- Designer Bag and All -- Translations from the Night -- The African beneath the American -- Faruk Yellow -- Revisiting Fear and Memphis -- White Wall Syndrome-A Study -- Lorde Cento -- The Woman in the Mirror -- Darwinian Ebb -- III. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Theda Bara and Barbara Stanwyck's "Baby Face": Exoticism and the Street-Smart Vamp --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Sans fangs: Theda Bara, A fool there was, and the cinematic vamp /…”

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Table of Contents: “…42. The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead --…”
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Table of Contents: “…The intent of the artist (Regional particulars and universal implications) ; Two all-American artists first-person singular (Duke Ellington vamping till ready ; Comping for Count Basie) ; The Armstrong continuum (The twentieth-century American herald) ; The Ellington synthesis (The vernacular imperative ; Storiella Americana as she is swyung, or, The blues as representative anecdote ; Armstrong and Ellington stomping the blues in Paris) ; The visual equivalent to blues composition (Bearden plays Bearden) ; The storyteller as blues singer (Ernest Hemingway swinging the blues and taking nothing) --…”

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Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 The Repeal of Reticence; 2 Sex O'Clock in America; 3 Troublesome Pictures; 4 From Boston to Bombay; 5 The White Slave; 6 The Vamp; 7 The Butterfly; Conclusion; Notes; Filmography and Bibliography; Index.…”
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