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  1. Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham
    dances in literature and cinema
    Author: Durkin, Hannah
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana Chicago ; Springfield

    "This project examines the writings and international film careers of Josephine Baker (1906-1975) and Katherine Dunham (1909-2006), the two most critically and commercially successful Black women dancers of the twentieth century. Drawing on... more

    Location:
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    "This project examines the writings and international film careers of Josephine Baker (1906-1975) and Katherine Dunham (1909-2006), the two most critically and commercially successful Black women dancers of the twentieth century. Drawing on previously unexamined films and texts, Hannah Durkin maps the intellectual underpinnings and visual impact of their art. By examining the narratives and dance of Baker and Hunham, Durkin is able to shed new light on the ways in which the dancers were received on both sides of the Atlantic and how they engaged personally with dominant critical interpretations of Black performance as crude and innate. The project uncovers their self-reflexive narrative strategies and provides evidence for their path-breaking interventions in cinema as stars and choreographers who believed that they could use film to contest racist frameworks and imagine new aesthetic possibilities for Black women. By analyzing the methods by which these two artists mediated popular constructions of Black women's identities, the investigation interrogates widely held conceptions of authorship and artistic hierarchies. It provides insights into intercultural identity formations by positioning Black women's bodily performances as sites on which historical struggles over cultural meanings have been played out and contested. Finally, by tracing connections between Baker and Dunham's performances and their lifelong fights against racial injustice, Durkin recovers Baker and Durham as key figures in the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements and exposes the transatlantic struggles regarding control over cultural embodiments of Black women in a pre-Civil Rights era"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780252042621; 9780252084454
    RVK Categories: AP 87350
    Subjects: African American women dancers / Biography / History and criticism; Dance in literature; Dance in motion pictures, television, etc / United States; Dance in motion pictures, television, etc / Europe; African Americans in motion pictures; African American women dancers; Tanz; Literatur; Ethnische Identität; Film
    Other subjects: Baker, Josephine / 1906-1975 / Criticism and interpretation; Dunham, Katherine / Criticism and interpretation; Dunham, Katherine (1909-2006); Baker, Josephine (1906-1975)
    Scope: xiii, 256 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
    Notes:

    The dancer in translation : Baker's coauthored narratives -- The dancer as translator : Dunham's ethnographic memoirs -- Performing within primitivism : Baker on the French silent screen -- Cinematic stardom : Baker and the 1930s French musical film -- Cinematic segregation : Dunham in World War II Hollywood -- Navigating primitivism's persistent gaze : Dunham in postwar European cinema
  2. Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham
    dances in literature and cinema
    Author: Durkin, Hannah
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana

    "This project examines the writings and international film careers of Josephine Baker (1906-1975) and Katherine Dunham (1909-2006), the two most critically and commercially successful Black women dancers of the twentieth century. Drawing on... more

     

    "This project examines the writings and international film careers of Josephine Baker (1906-1975) and Katherine Dunham (1909-2006), the two most critically and commercially successful Black women dancers of the twentieth century. Drawing on previously unexamined films and texts, Hannah Durkin maps the intellectual underpinnings and visual impact of their art. By examining the narratives and dance of Baker and Hunham, Durkin is able to shed new light on the ways in which the dancers were received on both sides of the Atlantic and how they engaged personally with dominant critical interpretations of Black performance as crude and innate. The project uncovers their self-reflexive narrative strategies and provides evidence for their path-breaking interventions in cinema as stars and choreographers who believed that they could use film to contest racist frameworks and imagine new aesthetic possibilities for Black women. By analyzing the methods by which these two artists mediated popular constructions of Black women's identities, the investigation interrogates widely held conceptions of authorship and artistic hierarchies. It provides insights into intercultural identity formations by positioning Black women's bodily performances as sites on which historical struggles over cultural meanings have been played out and contested. Finally, by tracing connections between Baker and Dunham's performances and their lifelong fights against racial injustice, Durkin recovers Baker and Durham as key figures in the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements and exposes the transatlantic struggles regarding control over cultural embodiments of Black women in a pre-Civil Rights era"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780252042621; 9780252084454
    Subjects: African American women dancers / Biography / History and criticism; Dance in literature; Dance in motion pictures, television, etc / United States; Dance in motion pictures, television, etc / Europe; African Americans in motion pictures; African American women dancers
    Other subjects: Baker, Josephine / 1906-1975 / Criticism and interpretation; Dunham, Katherine / Criticism and interpretation
    Scope: xiii, 256 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [225]-243

    The dancer in translation : Baker's coauthored narratives -- The dancer as translator : Dunham's ethnographic memoirs -- Performing within primitivism : Baker on the French silent screen -- Cinematic stardom : Baker and the 1930s French musical film -- Cinematic segregation : Dunham in World War II Hollywood -- Navigating primitivism's persistent gaze : Dunham in postwar European cinema
  3. Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham
    dances in literature and cinema
    Author: Durkin, Hannah
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana Chicago ; Springfield

    "This project examines the writings and international film careers of Josephine Baker (1906-1975) and Katherine Dunham (1909-2006), the two most critically and commercially successful Black women dancers of the twentieth century. Drawing on... more

    Location:
    Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Bibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "This project examines the writings and international film careers of Josephine Baker (1906-1975) and Katherine Dunham (1909-2006), the two most critically and commercially successful Black women dancers of the twentieth century. Drawing on previously unexamined films and texts, Hannah Durkin maps the intellectual underpinnings and visual impact of their art. By examining the narratives and dance of Baker and Hunham, Durkin is able to shed new light on the ways in which the dancers were received on both sides of the Atlantic and how they engaged personally with dominant critical interpretations of Black performance as crude and innate. The project uncovers their self-reflexive narrative strategies and provides evidence for their path-breaking interventions in cinema as stars and choreographers who believed that they could use film to contest racist frameworks and imagine new aesthetic possibilities for Black women. By analyzing the methods by which these two artists mediated popular constructions of Black women's identities, the investigation interrogates widely held conceptions of authorship and artistic hierarchies. It provides insights into intercultural identity formations by positioning Black women's bodily performances as sites on which historical struggles over cultural meanings have been played out and contested. Finally, by tracing connections between Baker and Dunham's performances and their lifelong fights against racial injustice, Durkin recovers Baker and Durham as key figures in the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements and exposes the transatlantic struggles regarding control over cultural embodiments of Black women in a pre-Civil Rights era"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780252042621; 9780252084454
    RVK Categories: AP 87350
    Subjects: African American women dancers / Biography / History and criticism; Dance in literature; Dance in motion pictures, television, etc / United States; Dance in motion pictures, television, etc / Europe; African Americans in motion pictures; African American women dancers
    Other subjects: Baker, Josephine / 1906-1975 / Criticism and interpretation; Dunham, Katherine / Criticism and interpretation
    Scope: xiii, 256 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
    Notes:

    The dancer in translation : Baker's coauthored narratives -- The dancer as translator : Dunham's ethnographic memoirs -- Performing within primitivism : Baker on the French silent screen -- Cinematic stardom : Baker and the 1930s French musical film -- Cinematic segregation : Dunham in World War II Hollywood -- Navigating primitivism's persistent gaze : Dunham in postwar European cinema