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Babylon girls: black women performers and the shaping of the modern
Babylon girls: black women performers and the shaping of the modern
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Brown, Jayna, 1966-
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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"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-Siécle 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.
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African American women entertainers
African American women entertainers -- Biography
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9780822341574
9780822341338
9780822390695
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