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Staging Race : Black Performers in Turn of the Century America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674043879
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Staging RaceDDC classification:
  • 791/.089/96073
LOC classification:
  • PN2270
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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