Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe

by Matthew Pratt Guterl

Book Overview

Creating a sensation with her risqu? nightclub act and strolls down the Champs Elys?es, pet cheetah in tow, Josephine Baker lives on in popular memory as the banana-skirted siren of Jazz Age Paris. In Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe, Matthew Pratt Guterl brings out a little known side of the celebrated personality, showing how her ambitions of later years were even more daring and subversive than the youthful exploits that made her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674047559
• ISBN13: 9780674047556
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.7"