Emilie Jabouin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5712559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emilie Jabouin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emilie |
| FAMILY NAME | Jabouin |
| SIGNATURE | JABOUIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Communication & Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Black Media Reporting on Theater, Dance, and Jazz Clubs in Canada
Canada has a history of de facto Jim Crow (1911–1954). It also has a historical Black press that is intimately connected to Black America through transnational conversations, and diasporic migration. This article argues that Canada’s Black newspapers played a pivotal role in promoting Black performance during a time when they were scarcely covered in the dominant media. Drawing on news coverage from the 1920s through 1950s of black dance, musical…
Black Women Dancers, Jazz Culture, and “Show Biz”
The documentary Show Girls, directed by Meilan Lam, makes an unprecedented contribution to the history of jazz and Black women jazz dancers in Montréal, Quebec, and to the conversation of jazz in Canada. Show Girls offers a glimpse into the lives of three Black women dancers of the 1920s–1950s. This essay asks what the lives of Black women dancers were like and how they navigated their career paths in terms of social and economic opportunities an…
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Black Women Dancers, Jazz Culture, and “Show Biz”
The documentary Show Girls, directed by Meilan Lam, makes an unprecedented contribution to the history of jazz and Black women jazz dancers in Montréal, Quebec, and to the conversation of jazz in Canada. Show Girls offers a glimpse into the lives of three Black women dancers of the 1920s–1950s. This essay asks what the lives of Black women dancers were like and how they navigated their career paths in terms of social and economic opportunities an…
Black Media Reporting on Theater, Dance, and Jazz Clubs in Canada
Canada has a history of de facto Jim Crow (1911–1954). It also has a historical Black press that is intimately connected to Black America through transnational conversations, and diasporic migration. This article argues that Canada’s Black newspapers played a pivotal role in promoting Black performance during a time when they were scarcely covered in the dominant media. Drawing on news coverage from the 1920s through 1950s of black dance, musical…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Black music (2 works) · Concert dance (2 works) · Dance (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Jazz (2 works) · Jazz dance (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works)