The Black Circuit: Race, Performance, and Spectatorship in Black Popular Theatre
- ISBN-10
- 1138046744
- ISBN-13
- 9781138046740
- Category
- African American theater
- Pages
- 194
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-03-18
- Publisher
- Sociology Re-Wired
- Author
- Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon
Description
"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"--
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