Josephine Baker in art and Life : : the Icon and the Image
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Creating the image -- Touring with Baker's image -- Opening nights -- Celluloid projections -- Living the dream -- Dress rehearsals -- Baker's scripts -- Hues of the rainbow in a global village -- Changing the world -- Legendary legionnaire -- Echoes and influences -- Eternal comeback.
Baker was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the 100th anniversary of her birth. This work studies the life and art of the Franco-American performer whose appearances as the savage dancer Fatou shocked the world.
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PUBLISHED
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: xxi, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0252031571 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252031571 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252074122 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252074127 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Simon, Njami.
SUBJECTS
Baker, Josephine, -- 1906-1975.
Dancers -- France -- Biography.
African American entertainers -- France -- Biography.
Biographies.