Staging Race : : Black Performers in Turn of the Century America / / Karen Sotiropoulos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Sotiropoulos, Karen,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION. Politics, Not Minstrelsy --; 1. Minstrel Men and the World's Fair --; 2. Vaudeville Stages and Black Bohemia --; 3. The "Coon Craze" and the Search for Authenticity --; 4. "No Place Like Home": Africa on Stage --; 5. Morals, Manners, and Stage Life --; 6. Black Bohemia Moves to Harlem --; CODA: Hokum Redux --; Notes Index --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674043879; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674043879
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Karen Sotiropoulos.

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.