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Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret acts, and the like between 1890 and 1945. Through a consideration of the gestures, costuming, vocal techniques, and stagecraft developed by African American singers and dancers, Jayna Brown explains how these women shaped the movement and style of an emerging urban popular culture. In an era of U.S. and British imperialism, these women challenged and played with constructions of race, gender, and the body as they moved across stages and...

Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret acts, and the like between 1890 and 1945. Through a consideration of the gestures, costuming, vocal techniques, and stagecraft developed by African American singers and dancers, Jayna Brown explains how these women shaped the movement and style of an emerging urban popular culture. In an era of U.S. and British imperialism, these women challenged and played with constructions of race, gender, and the body as they moved across stages and...