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Paul Robeson and the Cold War performance complex : race, madness, activism / Tony Perucci.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perucci, Tony.
- Series:
- Theater--text/theory/performance.
- Theater: theory/text/performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976--Political activity.
- Robeson, Paul.
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
- United States.
- Performance art--Political aspects--United States.
- Performance art.
- Freedom and art--Political aspects--United States.
- Freedom and art.
- Politics and culture--United States.
- Politics and culture.
- Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
- Cold War.
- Racism--United States--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- Anti-communist movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Anti-communist movements.
- United States--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the red mask of sanity
- Tonal treason and HUAC's psychoanalytic theater. Black performances and the stagecraft of statecraft
- Performing, informing, and shrieking innocence: surveillance, informance, and the performance of performance
- Discordant tones and the melody of freedom at Peekskill
- Anticommunism and the American lynching imagination
- Shedding blood and beating back fascists
- Staging anticommunism, staging racist violence
- Coda: the complex and the rupture.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-213) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786613582102
- 9781280486876
- 1280486872
- 9780472028207
- 0472028200
- OCLC:
- 794493884
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.3365636
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