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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818294603321

Autore

Sotiropoulos Karen

Titolo

Staging Race : Black Performers in Turn of the Century America / / Karen Sotiropoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2009]

©2006

ISBN

0-674-04387-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 288 p. ) : ill., ports

Disciplina

791.08996073

Soggetti

Performing Arts - African Americans in the performing arts - History

Performing arts - Political aspects - United States - History

Race discrimination - United States

Racism against Black people

Blackface

Drama

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Politics, Not Minstrelsy -- 1. Minstrel Men and the World's Fair -- 2. Vaudeville Stages and Black Bohemia -- 3. The "Coon Craze" and the Search for Authenticity -- 4. "No Place Like Home": Africa on Stage -- 5. Morals, Manners, and Stage Life -- 6. Black Bohemia Moves to Harlem -- CODA: Hokum Redux -- Notes Index -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing extensively on black newspapers and commentary of the period, Karen Sotiropoulos shows how black performers and composers participated in a politically charged debate about the role of the expressive arts in the struggle for equality. Despite the racial violence, disenfranchisement, and the segregation of virtually all public space, they used America's new businesses of popular entertainment as



vehicles for their own creativity and as spheres for political engagement.