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Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex : Race, Madness, Activism.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (232 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472028207
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance ComplexDDC classification:
  • 782.0092
LOC classification:
  • E185
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Red Mask of Sanity -- Part I: Tonal Treason and HUAC's Psychoanalytic Theater -- One: Black Performances and the Stagecraft of Statecraft -- Two: Performing Informing and Shrieking Innocence: Surveillance, Informance, and the Performance of Performance -- Part II: Discordant Tones and the Melody of Freedom at Peekskill -- Three: Anticommunism and the American Lynching Imagination -- Four: Shedding Blood and Beating Back Fascists -- Five: Staging Anticommunism, Staging Racist Violence -- Coda: The Complex and the Rupture -- Appendix: Testimony of Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 12, 1956 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Red Mask of Sanity -- Part I: Tonal Treason and HUAC's Psychoanalytic Theater -- One: Black Performances and the Stagecraft of Statecraft -- Two: Performing Informing and Shrieking Innocence: Surveillance, Informance, and the Performance of Performance -- Part II: Discordant Tones and the Melody of Freedom at Peekskill -- Three: Anticommunism and the American Lynching Imagination -- Four: Shedding Blood and Beating Back Fascists -- Five: Staging Anticommunism, Staging Racist Violence -- Coda: The Complex and the Rupture -- Appendix: Testimony of Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 12, 1956 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era.

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