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Babylon Girls
Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
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Jayna Brown
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English
Published/Copyright:
2008
About this book
Cultural history of African American women's popular performance between 1890 and 1945, focusing on performers from the variety, music hall, and cabaret stages.
Author / Editor information
Jayna Brown is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
Reviews
“Babylon Girls is a brilliant book. Consistently pushing multiple fields in new directions, Jayna Brown reveals the centrality of black female performance culture in the making of transatlantic modernity. Her incredibly valuable book demonstrates how African Americans moved in resilient and unpredictable ways—both geographically and performatively—during the early twentieth century.”—Daphne A. Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910
“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
“[A]n original, exciting, and ambitious study of black women performers in the early decades of the twentieth century. . . . In a book filled with fascinating and valuable insights and information, the discussion of white female minstrelsy is one of the most interesting and original. . . . Artists such as the women about whom Brown writes deserve to have their lives and work studied and attended to—as Brown does, providing brilliant analysis of and insight into the meanings embedded in them.”
-- Farah Jasmine Griffin Women's Review of Books
“This is a fascinating subject. Jayna Brown’s study of well-known, little-known, and unknown African American female performers—from minstrels to ‘coon cantatrices,’ from dancers to jazz trumpeters—in the first half of the twentieth century offers us ways to understand the multilayered significance of their appearance and forms of expression on stages in the United States and Europe.”
-- Maureen E. Montgomery Journal of American History
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 19, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9780822390695
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
360
Other:
49 illustrations
