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Author : Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Release : 2007
Genre : African American entertainers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 122/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Josephine Baker in Art and Life by : Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Download or read book Josephine Baker in Art and Life written by Bennetta Jules-Rosette. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond biography: a legendary performer's legacy of symbolism
Author : Patricia Hruby Powell
Release : 2014-01-14
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 711/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Josephine by : Patricia Hruby Powell
Download or read book Josephine written by Patricia Hruby Powell. This book was released on 2014-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jonah Winter
Release : 2012-01-03
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 109/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jazz Age Josephine by : Jonah Winter
Download or read book Jazz Age Josephine written by Jonah Winter. This book was released on 2012-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book biography that will inspire readers to dance to their own beats! Singer, dancer, actress, and independent dame, Josephine Baker felt life was a performance. She lived by her own rules and helped to shake up the status quo with wild costumes and a you-can’t-tell-me-no attitude that made her famous. She even had a pet leopard in Paris! From bestselling children’s biographer Jonah Winter and two-time Caldecott Honoree Marjorie Priceman comes a story of a woman the stage could barely contain. Rising from a poor, segregated upbringing, Josephine Baker was able to break through racial barriers with her own sense of flair and astonishing dance abilities. She was a pillar of steel with a heart of gold—all wrapped up in feathers, sequins, and an infectious rhythm.
Author : Jean-Claude Baker
Release : 2001
Genre : African American entertainers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 723/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Josephine by : Jean-Claude Baker
Download or read book Josephine written by Jean-Claude Baker. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revelatory biography of Folies Bergere dancer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is a study of struggle, truimph and tragedy.
Author : Jose-Luis Bocquet
Release : 2017-05-16
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 295/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Josephine Baker by : Jose-Luis Bocquet
Download or read book Josephine Baker written by Jose-Luis Bocquet. This book was released on 2017-05-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer became the idol of the Roaring Twenties, captivating Picasso, Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Simenon. In the liberating atmosphere of the 1930s, Baker rose to fame as the first black star on the world stage, from London to Vienna, Alexandria to Buenos Aires. After World War II, and her time in the French Resistance, Baker devoted herself to the struggle against racial segregation, publicly battling the humiliations she had for so long suffered personally. She led by example, and over the course of the 1950s adopted twelve orphans of different ethnic backgrounds: a veritable Rainbow Tribe. A victim of racism throughout her life, Josephine Baker would sing of love and liberty until the day she died.
