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Moving performances : divas, iconicity, and remembering the modern stage
- Title
- Moving performances : divas, iconicity, and remembering the modern stage / Jeanne Scheper.
- Author
- Scheper, Jeanne, 1967-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 209 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- African American women entertainers > History > 20th century
- African American women entertainers
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Performing arts > Political aspects > United States > 20th century
- Performing arts > Political aspects
- Performing arts > Social aspects > United States > 20th century
- Performing arts > Social aspects
- Race relations
- United States > Race relations > 20th century
- United States
- Women entertainers > United States > History > 20th century
- Women entertainers
- Women in the performing arts > United States
- Women in the performing arts
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-199) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : divas, iconicity, remembering -- The color line is always moving : Aida Overton Walker -- Transnational technologies of orientalism : Loïe Fuller's invented repertoires -- "Voices within the voice" : aural passing and Libby Holman's deracinated/reracinated sound -- "Much too busy to die" : Josephine Baker's diva iconicity -- Conclusion : diva remains.
- ISBN
- 9780813585451
- 0813585457
- 9780813585444
- 0813585449
- LCCN
- 2016003238
- Author
- Scheper, Jeanne, 1967- author.
- Title
- Moving performances : divas, iconicity, and remembering the modern stage / Jeanne Scheper.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-199) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Branch Call Number
- 791.0899 S