Staging race : black performers in turn of the century America / Karen Sotiropoulos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sotiropoulos, Karen, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in the performing arts.

Performing arts--Political aspects--United States--19th century.

Performing arts.

Performing arts--Political aspects--United States--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 288 p. ) ill., ports.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing extensively on black newspapers and commentary of the period, Karen Sotiropoulos shows how black performers and composers participated in a politically charged debate about the role of the expressive arts in the struggle for equality. Despite the racial violence, disenfranchisement, and the segregation of virtually all public space, they used America's new businesses of popular entertainment as vehicles for their own creativity and as spheres for political engagement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Notes

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2006.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674043879

0674043871

OCLC:

1049627617