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Author:

Shaw McMahon, Rashida Z., author.

Title:

The Black circuit : race, performance, and spectatorship in Black popular theatre / Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xii, 193 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

1900-2099
African American theater--History--20th century.
African American theater--History--21st century.
Theater audiences--United States--History--20th century.
Theater audiences--United States--History--21st century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--21st century.
African Americans in the performing arts.
African American theater.
African Americans in the performing arts.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Theater audiences.
United States.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Black circuit -- Slow roasted chitterlings -- Looking for Langston -- David Talbert: resurrecting Langston -- Johnson and Guidry: vaudeville 2.0 -- Tyler Perry: minstrelsy inverted -- Small acts: the politics of Black theatrical pleasure.

Summary:

"The Black Circuit examines Chitlin Circuit musicals, from Langston Hughes to Tyler Perry. Through historical and sociological research, Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon identifies how these popular, yet alienated, events shed new and light on the reception of black performances by black spectators and African American theatre-making"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Sociology re-wired

ISBN:

1138046744
9781138046740
1138046736
9781138046733

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1122687692

LCCN:

2019031773

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)