Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern by Jayna Brown

Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern

Jayna Brown

360 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction music challenging informative slow-paced

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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, v...

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