Harlem's Theaters : A Staging Ground for Community, Class, and Contradiction, 1923-1939 /

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"Based on a vast amount of archival research, Adrienne Macki Braconi's illuminating study of three important community-based theaters in Harlem shows how their work was essential to the formation of a public identity for African Americans and the articulation of their goals, laying the gro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Macki Braconi, Adrienne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Kulturleben
Theater
Schwarze
Theaters.
Theater.
Intellectual life.
Civil rights movements.
African American theater.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Theâtre noir americain > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African American theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Theaters > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
New York- Harlem
United States.
New York (State) > New York > Harlem.
New York (State) > New York.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Based on a vast amount of archival research, Adrienne Macki Braconi's illuminating study of three important community-based theaters in Harlem shows how their work was essential to the formation of a public identity for African Americans and the articulation of their goals, laying the groundwork for the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement. Macki Braconi uses textual analysis, performance reconstruction, and audience reception to examine the complex dynamics of productions by the Krigwa Players, the Harlem Experimental Theatre, and the Negro Theatre of the Federal Theatre Project. Even as these theaters demonstrated the extraordinary power of activist art, they also revealed its limits. The stage was a site on which ideological and class differences played out, theater being both a force for change and a collision of contradictory agendas. Macki Braconi's book alters our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, the roots of the Civil Rights Movement, and the history of community theater in America"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (279 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780810132269

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