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Auteur(s) : Seniors, Paula Marie
Titre(s) : Beyond lift every voice and sing [Texte imprimé] : the culture of uplift, identity, and politics in Black musical theater / Paula Marie Seniors
Publication : Columbus : the Ohio state university press, 2009
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-292 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Black performance and cultural criticism
Lien à la collection : Black performance and cultural criticism
Comprend : The origins of the Cole and Johnson musical theater team ; Cole and Johnson's social
and political thought : the case of Shoo fly regiment and the Spanish-American war
; Theatrical imaginings : Cole and Johnson's The shoo fly regiment ; The red moon
: the interconnections between theater and history, the black and native Americanization
program at Hampton Institute ; Cole and Johnson and the Gibson Gal : gender, race
and uplift.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-270) and index
Paula Marie Seniors's Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing explores the realities of African
American life and history as refracted through the musical theater productions of
one of the most prolific black song-writing teams of the early twentieth century.
James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson, and Bob Cole combined conservative and
progressive ideas in a complex and historically specific strategy for overcoming racism
and its effects. In Shoo Fly Regiment (1906-1908) and The Red Moon (1908-1910), theater,
uplift, and politics collided as the team tried to communicate a politics of uplift,
racial pride, gender equality, and interethnic coalitions. The overarching question
of this study is how roles and representations in black musical theater both reflected
and challenged the dominant social order. While some scholars dismiss the team as
conformists, Seniors's contention is that they used the very tools of hegemony to
make progressive political statements and to create a distinctly black theater informed
by black politics, history, and culture. These men were writers, musicians, actors,
and vaudevillians who strove to change the perception of African Americans on stage
from one of minstrelsy buffoonery to one of dignity and professionalism [Publisher
description]
Sujet(s) : Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938)
Johnson, John Rosamond (1873-1954)
Cole, Bob (1868-1911)
Théâtre musical -- États-Unis
Théâtre musical -- Auteurs noirs américains
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780814211007. - ISBN 0814211003 (rel.). - ISBN 9780814291986. - ISBN 0814291988
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45246131b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45246131
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