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.
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