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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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hill, Errol (συγγραφέας)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hatch, James V. (James Vernon), 1928- (συγγραφέας)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: New York : Cambridge University Press, c2003.
Σειρά:Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Publisher description
Table of contents
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.