Moving performances : divas, iconicity, and remembering the modern stage
- Title
- Moving performances : divas, iconicity, and remembering the modern stage / Jeanne Scheper.
- Published by
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xi, 209 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Women entertainers
- Performing arts > Political aspects
- United States
- African American women entertainers
- Performing arts > Social aspects
- Performing arts > Political aspects > United States > 20th century
- Race relations
- United States > Race relations > 20th century
- 1900-1999
- History
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Women entertainers > United States > History > 20th century
- African American women entertainers > History > 20th century
- Women in the performing arts > United States
- Performing arts > Social aspects > United States > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- 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.
- Call number
- Sc E 17-257
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-199) and index.
- 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
- text
- still image
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-199) and index.
- Chronological term
- 1900-1999
- LCCN
- 2016003238
- ISBN
- 9780813585451 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
- 0813585457 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
- 9780813585444 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
- 0813585449 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
- Research call number
- Sc E 17-257