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A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927
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A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927

By Krasner, David, 1952-

Published 2002 by Palgrave Macmillan, New York

ISBN 0312295901

Bib Id 789262

Edition 1st ed.

Description xii, 370 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

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Leader
02956cam a2200445 a 4500
LCCN
2002-25109
ISBN
0312295901 (hbk.) : $35.00
Call #
812.09 K
Author
Krasner, David, 1952-
Title
A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927
Edition
1st ed.
Description
xii, 370 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
African American Performance in the Harlem Renaissance -- 1910-1918 -- Men in Black and White: Race and Masculinity in the Heavyweight Title Fight of 1910 -- Exoticism, Dance, and Racial Myths: Modern Dance and the Class Divide in the Choreography of Aida Overton Walker and Ethel Waters -- "The Pageant Is the Thing": Black Nationalism and The Star of Ethiopia -- Black Drama -- Walter Benjamin and the Lynching Play: Mourning and Allegory in Angelina Weld Grimke's Rachel -- Migration, Fragmentation, and Identity: Zora Neale Hurston's Color Struck and the Geography of the Harlem Renaissance -- The Wages of Culture: Alain Locke and the Folk Dramas of Georgia Douglas Johnson and Willis Richardson -- 1918-1927 -- "In the Whirlwind and the Storm": Marcus Garvey and the Performance of Black Nationalism -- Whose Role Is It, Anyway?: Charles Gilpin and the Harlem Renaissance -- "What Constitutes a Race Drama and How May We Know It When We Find It?": The Little Theatre Movement and the Black Public Sphere.
African American Performance in the Harlem Renaissance -- 1910-1918 -- Men in Black and White: Race and Masculinity in the Heavyweight Title Fight of 1910 -- Exoticism, Dance, and Racial Myths: Modern Dance and the Class Divide in the Choreography of Aida Overton Walker and Ethel Waters -- "The Pageant Is the Thing": Black Nationalism and The Star of Ethiopia -- Black Drama -- Walter Benjamin and the Lynching Play: Mourning and Allegory in Angelina Weld Grimke's Rachel -- Migration, Fragmentation, and Identity: Zora Neale Hurston's Color Struck and the Geography of the Harlem Renaissance -- The Wages of Culture: Alain Locke and the Folk Dramas of Georgia Douglas Johnson and Willis Richardson -- 1918-1927 -- "In the Whirlwind and the Storm": Marcus Garvey and the Performance of Black Nationalism -- Whose Role Is It, Anyway?: Charles Gilpin and the Harlem Renaissance -- "What Constitutes a Race Drama and How May We Know It When We Find It?": The Little Theatre Movement and the Black Public Sphere. Shuffle Along and the Quest for Nostalgia: Black Musicals of the 1920s -- Conclusion: The End of "Butter Side Up".
Subject
American drama--African American authors History and criticism.
African Americans in the performing arts--New York (State) New York--History--20th century.
African American theater--New York (State) New York--History--20th century.
Performing arts--New York (State) New York--History--20th century.
American drama--New York (State) New York--History and criticism.
African Americans--New York (State) New York--Intellectual life.
Theater--New York (State) New York--History--20th century.
American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life.

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