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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815339903321

Autore

Perucci Tony

Titolo

Paul Robeson and the Cold War performance complex : race, madness, activism / / Tony Perucci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012

ISBN

1-280-48687-2

9786613582102

0-472-02820-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Theater: theory/text/performance

Disciplina

782.0092

Soggetti

Performance art - Political aspects - United States

Freedom and art - Political aspects - United States

Politics and culture - United States

Cold War - Social aspects - United States

Racism - United States - History - 20th century

Anti-communist movements - United States - History - 20th century

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.