A history of African American theatre /

• Main Author: Hill, Errol (συγγραφέας)
• Other Authors: Hatch, James V. (James Vernon), 1928- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, c2003.
• Series: Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama.
• Subjects: Αφροαμερικάνικο θέατρο; Αμερικανικό δράμα > Ιστορία και κριτική

 "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. 

 Foreward / Lloyd G. Richards -- Slavery and conquest: background to black theatre -- The African theatre to Uncle Tom's Cabin -- The Civil War to The Creole Show -- American minstrelsy in black and white -- New vistas: plays, spectacles, musicals, and opera -- The struggle continues -- The Harlem Renaissance -- Educational theatre -- The Caribbean connection -- The Great Depression and federal theatre -- Creeping toward integration -- From Hansberry to Shange -- The millennium -- App.: theatre scholarship 2002.