Buy this book on-line WOOD,EAN: : The Josephine Baker StoryLONDON.SANCTUARY PUBLISHING LIMITED,2000. ISBN 1860742866.
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Josephine Baker didn't have just one life - she had many.
Emerging from the sordid poverty and racial intolerance of early-20th-century St Louis,she delighted audiences all over America with her exuberant dancing and clowning, before moving on to scandalise Paris
with her sensuality and sexual frankness. The star of show after show, Josephine appeared in the debauched cabarets of Berlin and Paris, including the infamous Folies Bergere,as well as a succession of tours of Europe and South America, earning a reputation,by turn,as a symbol of liberation and as a demon of licetiousness.
There was more to Josephine than her act.A role-model for young black
women,she received the Legion d'Honneur for her role as an undercover agent during the Second World War.In the USA,Harlem dedicated a "Josephine Baker Day" in
recognition of her work for racial equality,typified by her adoption of
twelve orphans of all colours and creeds. Evicted by creditors from her castle in the South of France,she was rescued from poverty by Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco,later becoming famous all over again,delighting audiences everywhere from the London Palladium
to Carnegie Hall.
Josephine Baker died in 1975 having
just opened in Josephine - a show of
her life which was set to take Paris
by storm 50 years after she had first enraptured the city.She had deservedly become a legend. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of WOOD,EAN: : The Josephine Baker Story. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, livres illustrées, livres d'occasion, livres anciens and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |