Harlem's Theaters

A Staging Ground for Community, Class, and Contradiction, 1923-1939

Adrienne Macki Braconi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2015
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-3224-5 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Adrienne Macki Braconi is an assistant professor in the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.2015
Zusatzinfo	14 images
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8101-3224-9 / 0810132249
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-3224-5 / 9780810132245
Zustand	Neuware