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Author Seniors, Paula Marie, author.

Title Beyond Lift every voice and sing : the culture of uplift, identity, and politics in black musical theater / Paula Marie Seniors
Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 292 pages) : illustrations
Series Black performance and cultural criticism
Black performance and cultural criticism.
Contents 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
Summary 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]
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-270) and index
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Subject Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond), 1873-1954.
Cole, Bob, 1868-1911.
SUBJECT Cole, Bob, 1868-1911. fast (OCoLC)fst00296928
Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond), 1873-1954. fast (OCoLC)fst00180490
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. fast (OCoLC)fst00045815
Johnson, James W. idszbz
Johnson, John Rosamond. idszbz
Cole, Bob. idszbz
Johnson, James Weldon. swd
Johnson, John Rosamond. swd
Cole, Bob Komponist. swd
Subject African Americans in musical theater -- History
Musical theater -- United States -- History
African Americans in musical theater.
Musical theater.
Politik
Musiktheater
Musical.
Theater.
Schwarze.
United States.
USA.
Schwarze.
USA.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008048102
ISBN 9780814271513
0814271510