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Josephine
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Author : Josephine Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Josephine written by Josephine Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"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
Josephine Baker In Art And Life
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Author : Bennetta Jules-Rosette
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2007
Josephine Baker In Art And Life written by Bennetta Jules-Rosette and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with African American entertainers categories.
Beyond biography: a legendary performer's legacy of symbolism
Josephine Baker
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Author : Jean-Claude Baker
language : en
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Release Date : 2001-07-30
Josephine Baker written by Jean-Claude Baker and has been published by Cooper Square Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Based on twenty years of research and thousands of interviews, this authoritative biography of performer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) provides a candid look at her tempestuous life. Born into poverty in St. Louis, the uninhibited chorus girl became the sensation of Europe and the last century's first black sex symbol. A heroine of the French Resistance in World War II, she entranced figures as diverse as de Gaulle, Tito, Castro, Princess Grace, two popes, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Yet Josephine was also, as one critic put it, "a monster who made Joan Crawford look like the Virgin Mary." Jean-Claude Baker's book also reveals her outbursts that resulted in lasting feuds, her imperious treatment of family and entourage members, and her ambivalent attitudes concerning her ethnic background. Reconciling Josephine's many personas—Jazz-age icon, national hero of France, proponent of Civil Rights, mother of children from across the globe—Josephine: The Hungry Heart gives readers the inside story on a star unlike any other before or since.
Josephine
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Author : Jean-Claude Baker
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2001
Josephine written by Jean-Claude Baker and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with African American entertainers categories.
This revelatory biography of Folies Bergere dancer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is a study of struggle, truimph and tragedy.
Josephine Baker
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Author : Alan Schroeder
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Josephine Baker written by Alan Schroeder and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with African American entertainers categories.
* Critically acclaimed biographies of history's most notable African-Americans * Straightforward and objective writing * Lavishly illustrated with photographs and memorabilia * Essential for multicultural studies
The Josephine Baker Story
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Author : Wise Publications
language : en
Publisher: Wise Publications
Release Date : 2000-06-22
The Josephine Baker Story written by Wise Publications and has been published by Wise Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-22 with Music categories.
This is the story of no ordinary life...Josephine Baker emerged from sordid poverty and racial intolorance in early 20th-century St Louis to delight audiences across the world becoming a genuine star of the stage.
The Many Faces Of Josephine Baker
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Author : Peggy Caravantes
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2015-02-01
The Many Faces Of Josephine Baker written by Peggy Caravantes and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A complete biographical look at the complex life of a world-famous entertainer With determination and audacity, Josephine Baker turned her comic and musical abilities into becoming a worldwide icon of the Jazz Age. The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy provides the first in-depth portrait of this remarkable woman for young adults. Author Peggy Caravantes follows Baker's life from her childhood in the depths of poverty to her comedic rise in vaudeville and fame in Europe. This lively biography covers her outspoken participation in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, espionage work for the French Resistance during World War II, and adoption of 12 children—her “rainbow tribe.” Also included are informative sidebars on relevant topics such as the 1917 East St. Louis riot, Pullman railway porters, the Charleston, and more. The lush photographs, appendix updating readers on the lives of the rainbow tribe, source notes, and bibliography make this is a must-have resource for any student, Baker fan, or history buff.
Josephine
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Author : Patricia Hruby Powell
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2014-01-14
Josephine written by Patricia Hruby Powell and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
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.
Jjosephine Baker
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Author : Josephine Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Jjosephine Baker written by Josephine Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Josephine Baker S Cinematic Prism
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Author : Terri Simone Francis
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-19
Josephine Baker S Cinematic Prism written by Terri Simone Francis and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.