Early African Entertainments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians by Bernth Lindfors

Early African Entertainments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians

Bernth Lindfors

248 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction music challenging informative slow-paced
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African and pseudo-African performers were displayed as curiosities throughout Europe and America. Appearing in circuses, ethnographic exhibitions, and traveling shows, these individuals and troupes ...

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