Anthology of the American Negro in the theatre, a critical approach. / Compiled and Edited by Lindsay Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patterson, Lindsay, 1942- compiler.

Contributor:

Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

International library of Negro life and history

International library of Negro life and history.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--United States.

Theater.

United States.

African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 306 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 29 cm.

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, Publishers Company, Inc., 1967.

Contents:

I. In the Beginning. One Hundred Years of Negro Entertainment by Allan Morrison; Goodbye, Mister Bones by Gerald Bradley; The Negro and the American Stage by Alain Locke; The Drama of Negro Life by Montgomery Gregory; The Gift of Laughter by Jessie Fauset; Musical Comedy by Maud Cuney-Hare; Clorindy, the Origin of the Cakewalk by Will Marion Cook

II. The Negro as Playwright. The Negro Playwright on Broadway by Raoul Abdul; The Negro Dramatist's Image of the Universe, 1920-1960 by Darwin T. Turner; A Woman Playwright Speaks Her Mind by Alice Childress; American Theater: For Whites Only? by Douglas Turner Ward; How I Became a Playwright by Garland Anderson

III. First on Broadway. The Chip Woman's Fortune by Willis Richardson

IV. A Helping Hand. The Federal Theatre by Sterling A. Brown

V. Community Ventures. Karamu by Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy; The Free Southern Theater: An Evaluation by Tom Dent

VI. The Negro Thespian. The Negro Actor Attemps Legitimate by Sterling A. Brown; James Baldwin on the Negro Actor by James Baldwin; The Tattered Queens by Ruby Dee; The Negro Actor by Ray Rogers; Problems Facing Negro Actors by Woodie King, Jr.; Young Actor on the Way Up by Robert Burg; Integration on Broadway by Lindsay Patterson; Problems and Prospects by Frederick O'Neal.

VII. An Afro-American Theatre? The Need for an Afro-American Theatre by Langston Hughes; Purlie Told Me! by Ossie Davis; The Need for a Harlem Theatre by Jim Williams; The Negro Theatre and the Harlem Community by Loften Mitchell

VIII. Gershwin's Folly. Porgy and Bess-A Folk Opera? by Hall Johnson

IX. Perspectives. History and Theater by Martin Duberman; That Boy LeRoi by Langston Hughes; Every Negro in His Place: The Scene on and off Broadway by William Talbot

X/ Dance. One of our National Treasures by Arthur Todd

XI. Films. The Negro in American Film by Carlton Moss; The Coming of the Sound Film by Peter Noble

XII. Radio and Television. The Waste Lands by Lindsay Patterson

XIII. New Frontiers. Funnyhouse of a Negro by Adrienne Kennedy.

Notes:

Published under the auspices of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.

Text printed in two columns.

"Family Edition"--Dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-294) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

1424218