{"id":31010,"date":"2023-06-30T14:51:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/artikel\/arabella-fields"},"modified":"2023-06-30T16:16:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:16:31","slug":"arabella-fields","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/article\/arabella-fields","title":{"rendered":"Arabella Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"block block-header-article block-header-article-center block-header-article-align-pullRight\" >\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row middle-xs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-5 margin-bottom-third block-header-article--text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"zeplin-subHead01 margin-bottom-sixth\">Arabella Fields<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy margin-bottom-third\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Constantly touring, performing in a dizzying array of styles and winning fans across the continent, Arabella Field\u2019s life was paradigmatic of that of the variety star at the turn of the last century.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-header-article-small-image-wrapper has-highlight-color\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/autor\/deborah-pomeranz-en\" class=\"author-view box\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"author-view-label zeplin-category\">by Deborah Pomeranz<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-6 col-md-offset-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-header-article-image block-header-article-image-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<lazy-media-inline inline-template data-id=\"30656\">\n\t\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" id=\"media_6a04b8b75b8ba\">\n\t\t\t\t<script type=\"application\/json\" ref=\"data\">\n\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"1-arabella-fields-the-black-nightingale-207x300.jpg\",\"width\":207,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":16563},\"large\":{\"file\":\"1-arabella-fields-the-black-nightingale-705x1024.jpg\",\"width\":705,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":270305},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"1-arabella-fields-the-black-nightingale-768x1115.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1115,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":331174},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"1-arabella-fields-the-black-nightingale-1058x1536.jpg\",\"width\":1058,\"height\":1536,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":647170},\"small\":{\"file\":\"1-arabella-fields-the-black-nightingale-303x440.jpg\",\"width\":303,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":35174},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"1-arabella-fields-the-black-nightingale-400x580.jpg\",\"width\":400,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":69603},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"1-arabella-fields-the-black-nightingale-496x720.jpg\",\"width\":496,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":118397},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"1-arabella-fields-the-black-nightingale-882x1280.jpg\",\"width\":882,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":446442},\"original\":{\"file\":\"1-arabella-fields-the-black-nightingale.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":1742}},\n\t\t\t\t\"alt\" : \"Werbeanzeige von Arabella Fields. 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From: Das Programm, Nr. 223, 1906.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-description\">\u00a9 Stadtmuseum Berlin <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1-arabella-fields-the-black-nightingale-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Werbeanzeige von Arabella Fields. Aus: Das Programm, Nummer 223, 1906\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/noscript>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t<\/lazy-media-inline>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-copy\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-7 col-md-offset-5\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Despite the marginalization and exclusion she faced as a Black immigrant, Fields forged her own path of creative expression, material success, and local belonging.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-headline has-highlight-color block-no-margin\" >\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"h3\">A Singer Gets Her Start<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-copy\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>In the summer of 1894, at the age of fifteen, Arabella Middleton sang in Berlin for the first time. A month before, she had left her hometown of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA) with an African American variety troupe. The group continued touring Europe, and Arabella married her fellow singer, James C. 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As the \u201cBlack Nightingale\u201d she traveled the German, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian Empires, with frequent stops in Berlin theaters like the Walhalla, Passage, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/article\/max-reinhardt\">Max Reinhardt<\/a> Summer Theater. In 1907 she followed one of these engagements with a recording session with <em>Anker Phonogramm<\/em>. The six records were so successful that they were re-released well into the 1920s.\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-headline has-highlight-color block-no-margin\" >\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"h3\">The Transformation Artist<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-copy\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>With her enormous vocal range and knowledge of five languages, Fields expanded her repertoire from US-American popular music to include arias, German Lieder, and Alpine folk songs complete with yodeling. She provided her own accompaniment, on banjo or guitar. Between numbers Fields switched costumes, ranging from evening gowns to traditional Trachten, making the quick changes part of the entertainment.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-standard-image-copy  align-left\" data-parallax='{\"child\":\".motion-image\",\"mask\":\".row\",\"full\":{\"y\": [5,-5]}}' id=\"sticky_6a04b8b75dfe6\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\" data-parallax='{\"child\":\".row\",\"mask\":\".motion-image\",\"in\":{\"scale\": [1.1,1.1],\"opacity\": [0,0]},\"center\":{\"scale\": [1.1,1],\"opacity\": [0,1],\"ease\":\"sine.out\"},\"out\":{\"opacity\": [1,0]}}'>\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"padding-bottom-minimal padding-top-minimal\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<lazy-media-inline inline-template data-id=\"30660\">\n\t\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" id=\"media_6a04b8b75e315\">\n\t\t\t\t<script type=\"application\/json\" ref=\"data\">\n\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"3-a-happy-new-year-arabella-fields-110x300.jpg\",\"width\":110,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":12971},\"large\":{\"file\":\"3-a-happy-new-year-arabella-fields-375x1024.jpg\",\"width\":375,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":118167},\"small\":{\"file\":\"3-a-happy-new-year-arabella-fields-161x440.jpg\",\"width\":161,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":26576},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"3-a-happy-new-year-arabella-fields-213x580.jpg\",\"width\":213,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":42970},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"3-a-happy-new-year-arabella-fields-264x720.jpg\",\"width\":264,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":63577},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"3-a-happy-new-year-arabella-fields-469x1280.jpg\",\"width\":469,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":174950},\"original\":{\"file\":\"3-a-happy-new-year-arabella-fields.jpg\",\"width\":515,\"height\":1405}},\n\t\t\t\t\"alt\" : \"Neujahrsanzeige von Arabella Fields mit Foto der K\\u00fcnstlerin in alpenl\\u00e4ndischer Tracht\",\n\t\t\t\t\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/\",\n\t\t\t\t\"video\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"autoplay\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"youtube\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"hls\" : \"\",\n\t\t\t\t\"hls_autoplay\" : \"\",\n\t\t\t\t\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\t\t\t\t\"brightness\" : 100,\n\t\t\t\t\"crop\" : null,\n\t\t\t\t\"background\" : false,\n\t\t\t\t\"scale\" : 1,\n\t\t\t\t\"zoom\" : false,\n\t\t\t\t\"annotations\" : null\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"height-container\" style=\"padding-bottom:272.81553398058%;  \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<lazy-media v-if=\"sizes\" :inline=\"true\" :alt=\"alt\" :sizes=\"sizes\" :scale=\"scale\" :zoom=\"zoom\" :brightness=\"brightness\" :path=\"path\" :video=\"video\" :autoplay=\"autoplay\" :youtube=\"youtube\" :hls=\"hls\" :hls-autoplay=\"hlsAutoplay\" :crop=\"crop\" :youtubelabel=\"youtubelabel\" :annotations=\"annotations\" :background=\"background\"><\/lazy-media>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-a-happy-new-year-arabella-fields-110x300.jpg\" alt=\"Neujahrsanzeige von Arabella Fields mit Foto der K\u00fcnstlerin in alpenl\u00e4ndischer Tracht\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/noscript>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-label\">New Years\u2019 Advertisement by Arabella Fields. From: Das Programm, Nr. 404, 1910.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-description\">\u00a9 Stadtmuseum Berlin <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t<\/lazy-media-inline>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-4 col-md-offset-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"padding-bottom-minimal padding-top-minimal copy\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe mutable performances reflected a shifting self-presentation: Fields advertised her shows variously as starring a US-American, a German, an African, an Indigenous Australian, or a South American. This advertising strategy may have been Field\u2019s attempt to take advantage of the othering she faced as a non-white performer, and to appeal to the audience\u2019s desire for the presumed \u2018exotic.\u2019 On the other hand, in switching between her public identifications almost as quickly as her costumes, Fields parodied the desire for such performances of otherness. In so doing, she undermined assumptions of national and racial identity as natural, unchanging, and unambiguously legible in the body, and reclaimed the right to publicly disclose these personal details, or not, on her own terms.\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-headline has-highlight-color block-no-margin\" >\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"h3\">Perpetual Movement, Perpetual Reinvention<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-copy\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>The ever more successful Fields hired Engelhardt Winter as her manager, and the two soon married, though Fields kept the name under which she had become famous. Now a German citizen, she remained in the country after the outbreak of the First World War. Still, in 1915 the couple decided to move to the neutral Netherlands, where they stayed until 1920. Not long after returning to economically devastated Germany, Fields began another international tour, which would keep her on the road for three years.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-copy\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-7 col-md-offset-5\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>By 1925, Germany was able to attract international stars again, and Fields returned to Berlin to join one of the first new all-Black Revues under the leadership of jazz musician Sam Wooding. She stayed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/article\/louis-douglas\">Louis Douglas\u2019<\/a> \u201cBlack People\u201d (1926) and \u201cLouisiana\u201d (1929), revues that brought together three generations of Black talent in Europe. Fields was still on tour with the latter in 1931 when director Rex Ingram tracked her down for a role in his movie \u201cBaroud.\u201d Her debut as a film actress would be the last major performance of a career that spanned four decades. After filming in Morocco, Fields moved to Hamburg and stepped back from the public eye. We don\u2019t know how she spent the rest of her life.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constantly touring, performing in a dizzying array of styles and winning fans across the continent, Arabella Field\u2019s life was paradigmatic of that of the variety star at the turn of the last century. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30657,"template":"","ho_author":[402],"ho_category":[182,403,301],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/31010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/31010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31032,"href":"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/31010\/revisions\/31032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ho_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ho_author?post=31010"},{"taxonomy":"ho_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ho_category?post=31010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}