Babylon Girls
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Duke University Press (US) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780822390695 |
| Open Library | OL11885783W |
| Total publications | 1 |
| Coverage period | 2008 - 2008 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 23 |
| h-index | 1 |
| i10-index | 1 |
his book is a cultural history of African American performance in the first half of the twentieth century.It charts an early genealogy of black female performance, with my central subjects women of the variety stage: the lesser-known performers Belle Davis, Stella Wiley, Ida Forsyne, and Valaida Snow; the better-known artists Ada Overton Walker, Josephine Baker, and Florence Mills; and two generations of black chorus line dancers, many of whom remain nameless.This is also a book about the ways ideas of the raced body were performed, navigated, and challenged.It is about the history of female minstrelsy and other forms of race mimicry, particularly early twentiethcentury uses of black dance vocabularies, for performing race had everything to do with articulating the modern world.The book is about bodies and is shaped by territories, as the raced and gendered politics of space-the plantation, the stage, the street, the cabaret-organize my arguments throughout the book.Like its topics, this book is unruly and willfully disobedient at times.The chapters do not offer linear, complete, and seamless biographies of their subjects.This book is not a "recovery" history; though it has a similar inclination, it is not designed to fill the gaps left in masculinist and/or white womanist theories.I hope to leave enough provoked and unanswered that further work gets done on performance, dance, and racialized bodies in resistance to oppressive social regimes
Babylon Girls
his book is a cultural history of African American performance in the first half of the twentieth century.It charts an early genealogy of black female performance, with my central subjects women of the variety stage: the lesser-known performers Belle Davis, Stella Wiley, Ida Forsyne, and Valaida Snow; the better-known artists Ada Overton Walker, Josephine Baker, and Florence Mills; and two generations of black chorus line dancers, many of whom re…
Babylon Girls
his book is a cultural history of African American performance in the first half of the twentieth century.It charts an early genealogy of black female performance, with my central subjects women of the variety stage: the lesser-known performers Belle Davis, Stella Wiley, Ida Forsyne, and Valaida Snow; the better-known artists Ada Overton Walker, Josephine Baker, and Florence Mills; and two generations of black chorus line dancers, many of whom re…
Babylon Girls
his book is a cultural history of African American performance in the first half of the twentieth century.It charts an early genealogy of black female performance, with my central subjects women of the variety stage: the lesser-known performers Belle Davis, Stella Wiley, Ida Forsyne, and Valaida Snow; the better-known artists Ada Overton Walker, Josephine Baker, and Florence Mills; and two generations of black chorus line dancers, many of whom re…