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A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927
- Title
- A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927 / David Krasner.
- Author
- Krasner, David, 1952-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xii, 370 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- American drama > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism
- African American theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
- African Americans in literature
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life
- African Americans in the performing arts > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
- Performing arts > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
- Theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
- American drama > African American authors > History and criticism
- Harlem Renaissance
- American drama > 20th century > History and criticism
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- African American performance in the Harlem renaissance -- 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 -- Walter Benjamin and the lynching play: mourning and allegory in Angelina Weld Grimké'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 -- "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".
- Call Number
- Sc E 02-1548
- ISBN
- 0312295901 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2002025109
- OCLC
- 49649739
- 49260895
- Author
- Krasner, David, 1952-
- Title
- A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927 / David Krasner.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 02-1548JFE 02-20641