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

Braconi, Adrienne Macki

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0810132257 ISBN 13 : 9780810132252

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 revealedits 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

ADRIENNE MACKI BRACONI is an assistant professor in the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810132257
• ISBN 13: 9780810132252
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible