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Format: XI, 339 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 978-0-8223-4133-8 , 978-0-8223-4157-4

Content: "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." -- Book cover.

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8223-9069-5

Language: English

Subjects: Musicology

Keywords: Schwarze Frau ; Varieté ; Schauspielerin ; Schwarze Frau ; Varieté ; Tänzerin ; Schwarze Frau ; Varieté ; Sängerin ; Biografie ; Biografie

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Format: 1 online resource (354 p.) : , 49 illustrations

ISBN: 9780822390695

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Abbreviations for Libraries and Archives -- , Introduction -- , one “Little Black Me”: The Touring Picaninny Choruses -- , two Letting the Flesh Fly: Topsy, Time, Torture, and Transfiguration -- , three “Egypt ian Beauties” and “Creole Queens”: The Performance of City and Empire on th e Fin-de-Siècle Black Burlesque St age -- , four The Cakewalk Business -- , five Everybody’s Doing It : Social Dance, Segregation, and th e New Body -- , six Babylon Girls: Primitivist Modernism, Anti-modernism, and Black Chorus Line Dancers -- , seven Translocations: Florence Mills, Joseph ine Baker, and Valaida Snow -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822390695

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390695

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822390695

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (339 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-0-8223-9069-5

Note: Bevorzugte Informationsquelle Landingpage, da weder Titelblatt noch Impressum vorhanden (DUke University Press)

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8223-4133-8

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-8223-4157-4

Language: English

Subjects: Musicology

Keywords: Schwarze Frau ; Varieté ; Schauspielerin ; Schwarze Frau ; Varieté ; Tänzerin ; Schwarze Frau ; Varieté ; Sängerin ; Biografie ; Biografie

DOI: 10.1215/9780822390695

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

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Format: 1 online resource (356 pages)

ISBN: 128035707 , 9786613035707 , 082239069-8

Series Statement: e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Content: Cultural history of African American women's popular performance between 1890 and 1945, focusing on performers from the variety, music hall, and cabaret stages.

Note: 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-Siecle 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.

Language: English