The Black circuit -- Slow roasted chitterlings -- Looking for Langston -- David Talbert : resurrecting Langston -- Johnson and Guidry : vaudeville 2.0 -- Tyler Perry : minstrelsy inverted -- Small acts : the politics of Black theatrical pleasure
Summary
"The Black Circuit examines Chitlin Circuit musicals, from Langston Hughes to Tyler Perry. Through historical and sociological research, Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon identifies how these popular, yet alienated, events shed new and light on the reception of black performances by black spectators and African American theatre-making"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon is an Assistant Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty of African American Studies at Wesleyan University. Her researchuses interdisciplinary methodologies and collaborative approaches toward examining the dramatic and performance traditions of Africa and the African diaspora. Professor Shaw McMahon is originally from the island of St. Croix in theUS Virgin Islands
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