Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time
Phyllis Rose. Vintage Books USA, $14 (321pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73133-7
The influential, uninhibited entertainer's life is traced from her turbulent Missouri childhood to her fame as a jazz singer and dancer. ``This indispensable biography treats in full the two cultures--American and continental--that formed Baker, and sets a new standard for critical studies of performing artists,'' cheered PW. Photos. (Jan.)
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Reviewed on: 01/01/1991
Genre: Nonfiction
Analog Audio Cassette - 978-1-55927-116-5
Hardcover - 321 pages - 978-0-385-24891-4
Hardcover - 978-0-517-17903-1