A history of African American theatre /
"This is the first definitive history of African American theatre. The text embraces a wide geography investigating companies touring Europe, Australia, and Africa. This history represents a catholicity of styles - from African ritual born out of slavery to European forms, from amateur to profe...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
c2003.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama.
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| Online Access: | Publisher description Table of contents |
| Summary: | "This is the first definitive history of African American theatre. The text embraces a wide geography investigating companies touring Europe, Australia, and Africa. This history represents a catholicity of styles - from African ritual born out of slavery to European forms, from amateur to professional. It covers nearly two and a half centuries of black performance and production with issues of gender, class, and race ever in attendance. The volume encompasses aspects of performance such as minstrel, vaudeville, cabaret acts, musicals, and opera. Shows by white playwrights that used black casts, particularly in music and dance, are included, as are productions of western classics and a host of Shakespeare plays. The breadth and vitality of black theatre history, from the individual performance to large-scale company productions, from political nationalism to integration, are conveyed in this volume."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 608 σ. : εικ. ; 24 εκ. |
| Bibliography: | Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο. |
| ISBN: | 0521624436 |
