Moving performances : divas, iconicity, and remembering the modern stage

Title
  1. Moving performances : divas, iconicity, and remembering the modern stage / Jeanne Scheper.
Published by
  1. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Author
  1. Scheper, Jeanne, 1967-

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Description
  1. xi, 209 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Women entertainers
  2. Performing arts > Political aspects
  3. United States
  4. African American women entertainers
  5. Performing arts > Social aspects
  6. Performing arts > Political aspects > United States > 20th century
  7. Race relations
  8. United States > Race relations > 20th century
  9. 1900-1999
  10. History
  11. African Americans in the performing arts
  12. Women entertainers > United States > History > 20th century
  13. African American women entertainers > History > 20th century
  14. Women in the performing arts > United States
  15. Performing arts > Social aspects > United States > 20th century
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Sc E 17-257
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-199) and index.
Author
  1. Scheper, Jeanne, 1967- author.
Title
  1. Moving performances : divas, iconicity, and remembering the modern stage / Jeanne Scheper.
Publisher
  1. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-199) and index.
Chronological term
  1. 1900-1999
LCCN
  1. 2016003238
ISBN
  1. 9780813585451 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
  2. 0813585457 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
  3. 9780813585444 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
  4. 0813585449 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. Sc E 17-257
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