Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America

Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America
ISBN-10
0674027604
ISBN-13
9780674027602
Category
Social Science
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Karen Sotiropoulos

Description

Drawing extensively on black newspapers and commentary of the period, Karen Sotiropoulos shows how black performers and composers participated in a politically charged debate about the role of the expressive arts in the struggle for equality. Despite the racial violence, disenfranchisement, and the segregation of virtually all public space, they used America's new businesses of popular entertainment as vehicles for their own creativity and as spheres for political engagement.

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