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Brown sugar : over one hundred years of America's Black female superstars / Donald Bogle.

Title
Brown sugar : over one hundred years of America's Black female superstars / Donald Bogle.
Author
Bogle, Donald
Publication
New York : Continuum, 2007.

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Description
376 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
"In these pages are the incandescent women who have lit up Broadway and movie screens; turned clubs, cafes, concert halls, and televisions aglow with their particular brand of black magic; sold millions of CDs and DVDs; and are the subjects of endless fascination in the tabloids and on the Internet."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1900-2006
  • African American entertainers > Biography
  • Women entertainers > United States > Biography
  • African American women entertainers > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [370]-372) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- 1900-1920: Beginnings -- The 1920s: Personas -- The 1930s: Pop myths -- The 1940s: Social symbols -- The 1950s: Sex symbols -- The 1960s: Political symbols -- The 1970s: Survivors -- The 1980s: Old school goddesses of gliltz, new school ingenues -- The 1990s: Million dollar babies -- The 2000s: Mavens of the new millennium.
ISBN
  • 9780826416759 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0826416756 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007016738
OCLC
  • 123485618
  • SCSB-10273060
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library