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9781941393451 | Regan Arts, April 4, 2017, cover price $28.00
By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sexâall of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the grimness of the Great War and stride into the future in one deft, stylized gesture. The women who defined this the Jazz AgeâJosephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Tamara de Lempickaâwould presage the sexual revolution by nearly half a century and would shape the role of women for generations to come.In Flappers, the acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell renders these women with all the color that marked their lives and their era. Both sensuous and sympathetic, her admiring biography lays bare the private lives of her heroines, filling in the bold contours. These women came from vastly different backgrounds, but all ended up passing through Paris, the mecca of the avant-garde. Before she was the toast of Parisian society, Josephine Baker was a poor black girl from the slums of Saint Louis. Tamara de Lempicka fled the Russian Revolution only to struggle to scrape together a life for herself and her family. A committed painter, her portraits were indicative of the age's art deco sensibility and sexual daring. The Brits in the groupâNancy Cunard and Diana Cooperâ came from pinkie-raising aristocratic families but soon descended into the salacious delights of the vanguard. Tallulah Bankhead and Zelda Fitzgerald were two Alabama girls driven across the Atlantic by a thirst for adventure and artistic validation.But beneath the flamboyance and excess of the Roaring Twenties lay age-old prejudices about gender, race, and sexuality. These flappers weren't just dancing and carousing; they were fighting for recognition and dignity in a male-dominated world. They were more than mere lovers or muses to the modernist mastersâin their pursuit of fame and intense experience, we see a generation of women taking bold steps toward something burgeoning, undefined, maybe dangerous: a New Woman.
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9780374156084 | Sarah Crichton Books, January 14, 2014, cover price $28.00
9780230752337 | Pan Macmillan, May 23, 2013, cover price $33.15 | About this edition: By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge.
Paperback:
9780374535049 | Sarah Crichton Books, January 13, 2015, cover price $16.00
Product Description: With over 2,500 entries covering all aspects of dance, this unique dictionary is the only one of its kind available. It is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of dance in paperback, ranging from classical ballet to the cutting edge of modern dance...read more
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9780198601067 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Entries provide information on the history and terminology of classical, modern, traditional, and social dance forms from throughout the world, including choreographers and composers, dance companies, and notable works.
Paperback:
9780198607656 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 13, 2005), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: With over 2,500 entries covering all aspects of dance, this unique dictionary is the only one of its kind available.
9780198604006 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 16, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Entries provide information on the history and terminology of classical, modern, traditional, and social dance forms from throughout the world, including choreographers and composers, dance companies, and notable works.
Product Description: Vivacious and charming, ballerina Lydia Lopokova leapt to the height of fame with Diaghilev's legendary Ballets Russes. Then, a surprising marriage to renowned economist (and former homosexual) John Maynard Keynes catapulted her into an entirely different universe...read more
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9780753825785, titled "Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes" | Phoenix, June 2, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Vivacious and charming, ballerina Lydia Lopokova leapt to the height of fame with Diaghilev's legendary Ballets Russes.
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9781852730383 | Dance Books Ltd, December 1, 1992, cover price $19.95
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