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four The Cakewalk Business
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Abbreviations for Libraries and Archives xiii
- Introduction 1
- one “Little Black Me”: The Touring Picaninny Choruses 19
- two Letting the Flesh Fly: Topsy, Time, Torture, and Transfiguration 56
- three “Egypt ian Beauties” and “Creole Queens”: The Performance of City and Empire on th e Fin-de-Siècle Black Burlesque St age 92
- four The Cakewalk Business 128
- five Everybody’s Doing It : Social Dance, Segregation, and th e New Body 156
- six Babylon Girls: Primitivist Modernism, Anti-modernism, and Black Chorus Line Dancers 189
- seven Translocations: Florence Mills, Joseph ine Baker, and Valaida Snow 238
- Conclusion 280
- Notes 285
- Bibliography 313
- Index 333
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Abbreviations for Libraries and Archives xiii
- Introduction 1
- one “Little Black Me”: The Touring Picaninny Choruses 19
- two Letting the Flesh Fly: Topsy, Time, Torture, and Transfiguration 56
- three “Egypt ian Beauties” and “Creole Queens”: The Performance of City and Empire on th e Fin-de-Siècle Black Burlesque St age 92
- four The Cakewalk Business 128
- five Everybody’s Doing It : Social Dance, Segregation, and th e New Body 156
- six Babylon Girls: Primitivist Modernism, Anti-modernism, and Black Chorus Line Dancers 189
- seven Translocations: Florence Mills, Joseph ine Baker, and Valaida Snow 238
- Conclusion 280
- Notes 285
- Bibliography 313
- Index 333
