TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sotiropoulos,Karen
TI  - Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America
SN  - 9780674043879
AV  - PN2270 
U1  - 791/.089/96073 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - African Americans in the performing arts
KW  - Performing arts-Political aspects-United States-19th century
KW  - Performing arts-Political aspects-United States-20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Politics, Not Minstrelsy -- 1 Minstrel Men and the World's Fair -- 2 Vaudeville Stages and Black Bohemia -- 3 The "Coon Craze" and the Search for Authenticity -- 4 "No Place Like Home": Africa on Stage -- 5 Morals, Manners, and Stage Life -- 6 Black Bohemia Moves to Harlem -- Coda: Hokum Redux -- Notes -- Index
N2  - Drawing on black newspapers and commentary of the period, Sotiropoulos shows how black performers and composers participated in politically charged debate about the role of the expressive arts in the struggle for equality. They used America's new businesses of entertainment as vehicles for their creativity and as spheres for political engagement
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