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    Josephine Baker

    American-born French dancer, singer and actress

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  1. Jun 3, 2016 · When she swung onstage in that fiercely swinging banana skirt in 1926, Baker brilliantly manipulated the white male imagination. Crossing her eyes, waving her arms, swaying her hips, poking out ...

  2. Apr 8, 2024 · Josephine Baker (born June 3, 1906, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died April 12, 1975, Paris, France) was an American-born French dancer and singer who symbolized the beauty and vitality of Black American culture, which took Paris by storm in the 1920s. Baker grew up fatherless and in poverty.

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  3. Signature. Freda Josephine Baker ( née McDonald; June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975), naturalized as Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics ...

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  5. Feb 8, 2024 · Josephine Baker was a dancer and singer who became wildly popular in France during the 1920s. ... Baker and the Banana Skirt. However, it was the following year, at the Folies Bergère music hall ...

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  6. Josephine Baker in Banana Skirt from the Folies Bergère production "Un Vent de Folie," in 1927. Photo by Stanisław Julian Ignac Josephine moved to a chateau she rented in the south of France, where she took in other refugees fleeing the Nazis. After the fall of Paris, Josephine came into

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  7. Dec 24, 2020 · In a 1926 performance at the popular concert hall Folies Bergére, Baker wore a banana skirt during La Folie du Jour. The outfit became synonymous with Baker's on-stage persona and one of the most ...

  8. Dialectics of the Banana Skirt: The Ambiguities of Josephine Baker’s Self-Representation. Alicja Sowinska. The archive of Josephine Baker’s images is staggering. Hundreds of her photographs—dancing or frozen as in a reverie, with melancholic or comically crossed eyes, naked or glamorously clad—illustrate numerous books and writings ...

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