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Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
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Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern Brochura - 2008

por Jayna Brown


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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 by African American singers and dancers, Jayna Brown explains how these women shaped the movement and style of an emerging urban popular culture. In an era of U.S. and British imperialism, these women challenged and played with constructions of race, gender, and the body as they moved across stages and geographic space. They pioneered dance movements including the cakewalk, the shimmy, and the Charleston--black dances by which the "New Woman" defined herself. These early-twentieth-century performers brought these dances with them as they toured across the United States and around the world, becoming cosmopolitan subjects more widely traveled than many of their audiences.

Investigating both well-known performers such as Ada Overton Walker and Josephine Baker and lesser-known artists such as Belle Davis and Valaida Snow, Brown weaves the histories of specific singers and dancers together with incisive theoretical insights. She describes the strange phenomenon of blackface performances by women, both black and white, and she considers how black expressive artists navigated racial segregation. Fronting the "picaninny choruses" of African American child performers who toured Britain and the Continent in the early 1900s, and singing and dancing in The Creole Show (1890), Darktown Follies (1913), and Shuffle Along (1921), black women variety-show performers of the early twentieth century paved the way for later generations of African American performers. Brown shows not only how these artists influenced transnational ideas of the modern woman but also how their artistry was an essential element in the development of jazz.

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"The most exciting piece of scholarship that I've read in ages, "Babylon Girls" succeeds as an extremely ambitious, meticulously researched, brilliantly theorized cultural history. It is a landmark contribution to jazz studies, dance and performance studies, black women's history, studies of minstrelsy, and theories of cross-cultural exchange."--Sherrie Tucker, author of "Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s"

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  • Título Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
  • Autor Jayna Brown
  • Encadernação Brochura
  • Edição First Edition
  • Páginas 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Data de publicação 2008-09-19
  • Ilustrado Sim
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780822341574 / 0822341573
  • Peso 1.05 libras (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensão 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 in. (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Temas
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects African American women entertainers
  • Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 2008011050
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citações

  • Choice, 02/01/2009, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/17/2008, Page 21

Sobre o autor

Jayna Brown is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

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