Josephine: The Hungry Heart
This revelatory biography of Folies-Bergere dance Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is a study of struggle, triumph, and tragedy. Abandoned at birth, she battled racism, poverty, and sexism to become an international star.
Naked at the Feast: A Biography of Josephine Baker
by Lynn Haney
from Dodd Mead
Josephine Baker and LA Revue Negre: Paul Colin's Lithographs of Le Tumulte Noir in Paris, 1927
by Paul Colin
from Harry N Abrams
When graphic designer Paul Colin published a limited edition of lithographs he'd made of dancer Josephine Baker and her revue in Paris in 1927, the French fascination with American jazz musicians and dancers was at its peak--and the 500 hand-colored copies quickly sold out. The 45 lithographs collected under the title Le Tumulte Noir (the book's notes list uproar, frenzy, sensation, brouhaha, and craze among the possible translations for the word tumulte) include a dynamic sketch of Baker in her famous banana skirt, a chalklike drawing of a jazz band in full swing, a feather-bedecked woman dancing in the rain, an interracial flapper couple kicking up their heels, and other images that capture the joie de vivre of the era. Henry Louis Gates Jr. introduces this edition of the lithographs with an essay that reminds readers of the haven African Americans found in France at a time when overt racism and bigotry were rampant in the United States. He then maps the wild success the new musical form jazz, and its beloved interpreter Baker, achieved there. Colin's lithographs are faithfully reproduced in the same size and vertical orientation of the original edition with just the three colors he employed, the original title page, and Baker's own handwritten forward to the work.
Josephine Baker
Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time
Adolf Loos: Huis voor Josephine Baker = Adolf Loos : house for Josephine Baker (Architectural models)
Nationalizing and segregating performance: Josephine Baker and stardom in Zouzou (1934).(Critical essay): An article from: Post Script
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Title: Nationalizing and segregating performance: Josephine Baker and stardom in Zouzou (1934).(Critical essay)
Author: Scott Balcerzak
Publication: Post Script (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 26 Issue: 1 Page: 13(19)
Article Type: Critical essay
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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