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Author : Paul Colin,Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : African American dancers
ISBN : 0810927721
Profiles forty-five lithographs by Paul Colin which portray the uproar African-Americans created in music and dance in Paris after World War I.
Author : Andy Fry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226138954
The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as much of a Paris phenomenon as it was a Chicago and New York scene. In Paris Blues, Andy Fry provides an alternative history of African American music and musicians in France, one that looks beyond familiar personalities and well-rehearsed stories. He pinpoints key issues of race and nation in France’s complicated jazz history from the 1920s through the 1950s. While he deals with many of the traditional icons—such as Josephine Baker, Django Reinhardt, and Sidney Bechet, among others—what he asks is how they came to be so iconic, and what their stories hide as well as what they preserve. Fry focuses throughout on early jazz and swing but includes its re-creation—reinvention—in the 1950s. Along the way, he pays tribute to forgotten traditions such as black musical theater, white show bands, and French wartime swing. Paris Blues provides a nuanced account of the French reception of African Americans and their music and contributes greatly to a growing literature on jazz, race, and nation in France.
Author : Jody Blake
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271017538
Jody Blake demonstrates in this book that although the impact of African-American music and dance in France was constant from 1900 to 1930, it was not unchanging. This was due in part to the stylistic development and diversity of African-American music and dance, from the prewar cakewalk and ragtime to the postwar Charleston and jazz. Successive groups of modernists, beginning with the Matisse and Picasso circle in the 1900s and concluding with the Surrealists and Purists in the 1920s, constructed different versions of la musique and la danse negre. Manifested in creative and critical works, these responses to African-American music and dance reflected the modernists' varying artistic agendas and historical climates.
Author : Jean-Claude Baker,Chris Chase
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African American entertainers
ISBN : 9780815411727
This revelatory biography of Folies Bergere dancer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is a study of struggle, truimph and tragedy.
Author : Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African American entertainers
ISBN : 9780252074127
Beyond biography: a legendary performer's legacy of symbolism
Author : Alan Schroeder,Heather Lehr Wagner
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African American entertainers
ISBN : 9781438100869
* Critically acclaimed biographies of history's most notable African-Americans * Straightforward and objective writing * Lavishly illustrated with photographs and memorabilia * Essential for multicultural studies
Author : Josephine Baker,Jo Bouillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115056405
"There was Cleopatra. Later there was Josephine Baker. The French called her La Baker, the epitome of all that was exciting from the 1930s on. The toast of two continents, she could be found at night, dressed in her fabulously elaborate gowns and headdresses or just her famous banana costume, receiving standing ovations at the Folies Bergere. By day, tout Paris greeted her as she strolled down the Champs Elysées in a Dior frock, leading her pet leopard with its jeweled collar. Josephine Baker had come a long way from the black ghetto in St. Louis where she was born. Here is a dramatic story, heartwarming, horrifying, and funny by turns. Legends about her life and loves were legion, then and now. But only one person knew the real story of Josephine--herself. This is her book. Nearly completed before her death in 1975, it has been added to by her husband, Jo Bouillon, her sister, several of her adopted children, and her close friends. And what a life it was: one-night stands in tank-town theaters throughout the U.S., success in New York, and finally triumph in Paris and other European cities...fabulous costumes and famous friends...legendary performances throughout the world...lovers, husbands, jewels, pets... her efforts in World War II for the Free French cause...winning the medal of Resistance, given by General De Gaulle... her twelve adopted children of different races and religions--her Rainbow Tribe...Château Milandes which was to be a monument to human brotherhood and which was literally sold out from under her...her continuous fight for racial equality...her great comeback on the Paris stage just a few days before her death. Josephine's story is larger than life, for she reveled in the glamour of yesterday and today, and struggled for a more enlightened tomorrow." -- Book jacket
Author : Jose-Luis Bocquet
Publisher : SelfMadeHero
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 191059329X
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer became the idol of the Roaring Twenties, captivating Picasso, Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Simenon. In the liberating atmosphere of the 1930s, Baker rose to fame as the first black star on the world stage, from London to Vienna, Alexandria to Buenos Aires. After World War II, and her time in the French Resistance, Baker devoted herself to the struggle against racial segregation, publicly battling the humiliations she had for so long suffered personally. She led by example, and over the course of the 1950s adopted twelve orphans of different ethnic backgrounds: a veritable Rainbow Tribe. A victim of racism throughout her life, Josephine Baker would sing of love and liberty until the day she died.
Author : Patricia Hruby Powell
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781452129716
Coretta Scott King Book Award, Illustrator, Honor Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, Honor Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Nonfiction Honor In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait for young people of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
Author : Josephine Baker
Publisher : Vintage Classic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2025-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1784878340
Author : Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124093613
This rich, once-in-a-lifetime volume gathers photographs, posters, drawings, prints, and sculpture to tell the story of Bakers life and contributions to 20th century culture.
Author : Terri Simone Francis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253052179
A history and in-depth analysis of the film career of the iconic Black star, activist, and French military intelligence agent. Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping. Nicknamed the “Black Venus,” “Black Pearl,” and “Creole Goddess,” Baker blended the sensual and the comedic when taking 1920s Europe by storm. Back home in the United States, Baker’s film career brought hope to the Black press that a new cinema centered on Black glamour would come to fruition. In Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism, Terri Simone Francis examines how Baker fashioned her celebrity through cinematic reflexivity, an authorial strategy in which she placed herself, her persona, and her character into visual dialogue. Francis contends that though Baker was an African American actress who lived and worked in France exclusively with a white film company, white costars, white writers, and white directors, she holds monumental significance for African American cinema as the first truly global Black woman film star. Francis also examines the double-talk between Baker and her characters in Le Pompier de Folies Bergère, La Sirène des Tropiques, Zou Zou, Princesse Tam Tam, and The French Way, whose narratives seem to undermine the very stardom they offered. In doing so, Francis illuminates the most resonant links between emergent African American cinephilia, the diverse opinions of Baker in the popular press, and African Americans’ broader aspirations for progress toward racial equality. Examining an unexplored aspect of Baker’s career, Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism deepens the ongoing conversation about race, gender, and performance in the African diaspora.
Author : Phyllis Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : African American entertainers
ISBN : 009986200X
A poor black girl from St Louis, the 19-year-old Josephine Baker arrived in Paris in 1925. With her first appearance in La Revue Negre - naked, except for a skirt of feathers - she established herself as one of the legendary entertainers of the inter-war years and an outrageously potent symbol of sexuality. This biography examines her career as a major figure of 20th-century showbusiness and also as a civil rights campaigner, a French Resistance fighter and the mother of her rainbow tribe of adopted children.
Author : Ean Wood
Publisher : Sanctuary Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106015991760
Ean Wood's biography of this remarkable female star is as entertianing and as absorbing as Josephine's personality deserves.
Author : Sieglinde Lemke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195344547
This book explores a rich cultural hybridity at the heart of transatlantic modernism. Focusing on cubism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance in the Danse Sauvage, Sieglinde Lemke uncovers a crucial history of white and black intercultural exchange, a phenomenon until now greatly obscured by a cloak of whiteness. Considering artists and critics such as Picasso, Alain Locke, Nancy Cunard, and Paul Whiteman, in addition to Baker, Lemke documents a potent cultural dialectic in which black artistic expression fertilized white modernism, just as white art forms helped shape the black modernism of Harlem and Paris. Coining the term primitivist modernism to designate the multicultural heritage of this century's artistic production, Lemke reveals the generative and germinating black cultural Other in the arts. She examines this neglected dimension in full, fascinating detail, blending literary theory, social history, and cultural analysis to document modernism's complex absorption of African culture and art. She details numerous ways in which African and African American forms (visual styles, musical idioms, black dialects) and fantasies (Baker's costume and dance, say) permeated high and mass culture on both sides of the Atlantic. So-called primitive art and high modernism; savage rhythms and European music hall culture; European and African American expressions in jazz; European primitivism and the racial awakenings of African American culture: paired and freshly examined by Lemke, these subjects stand revealed in their true interrelatedness. Insisting on modernism's two-way cultural flow, Lemke demonstrates not only that white modernism owes much of its symbolic capital to the black Other, but that black modernism built itself in part on white Euro-American models. Through superbly nuanced readings of individual texts and images (fifteen striking examples of which are reproduced in this handsome volume), Lemke reforms our understanding of modernism. She shows us, in clear, invigorating fashion, that transatlantic modernism in both its high and popular modes was significantly more diverse than commonly supposed. Students and scholars of modernism, African American studies, and cultural studies, and those with interests in twentieth-century art, dance, music, or literature, will find this book richly rewarding.