A History of African American TheatreCambridge University Press, 17 juil. 2003 - 608 pages This is the first definitive history of African-American theatre. The text embraces a wide geography, investigating companies from coast to coast as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African American companies touring Europe, Australia and Africa. This history represents a catholicity of styles--from African ritual to European forms, from amateur to professional, and from political nationalism to integration. The volume covers all aspects of performance, including minstrel, vaudeville, and cabaret acts, as well as shows written by Whites that used black casts. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Slavery and conquest background to black theatre | 11 |
The African Theatre to Uncle Toms Cabin | 24 |
The Civil War to The Creole Show | 61 |
American minstrelsy in black and white | 93 |
New vistas plays spectacles musicals and opera | 135 |
The struggle continues | 186 |
The Harlem Renaissance | 214 |
The Great Depression and federal theatre | 307 |
Creeping toward integration | 335 |
From Hans berry to Shange | 375 |
The millennium | 430 |
theatre scholarship 2002 | 482 |
Notes | 488 |
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