josephine baker

While Jim Crow laws were reeking havoc on the lives of African Americans in the South, a massed exodus of Southern musicians, particularly from New Orleans, spread the seeds of Jazz as far north as New York City. A new genre of music produced fissures in the walls of racial discrimination thought to be impenetrable. Musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, “King” Oliver and Fletcher Henderson performed to the first desegregated audiences. Duke Ellington …

…world born from the imagination and initiative of Josephine Baker. BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS: “Baker, Josephine,” Current Biography Yearbook, 1964: 19 - 21. ARTICLES: Lamb, D., “Having Our Way: What Is It Really?” Aesthetic Realism Foundation 9/3/98: 2 WEBSITES: http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=12499 http://www.cmgww.com/stars/baker/quote.html http://www.gis.net/~dlamb/Josephine_Baker.html http://www. npg.si.edu/exu/noir/broch3.htm http://windows.../artistinfo.asp?name=Josephine%20Baker&p_id=p%20%20%20%20%20308