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 profe...

Table of Contents:

• 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.