| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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age Children |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-177) and index. |
| Summary |
Surveys the contributions of black performers and playwrights to drama, comedy and music from pre-Civil War days to the present. |
| Contents |
1. "To be or not to be": the pre-Civil War theater -- 2. "Why does a chicken cross the road?": the rise and fall of minstrelsy in the 1800s -- 3. "Coontown" and cakewalks: the Black musical show, 1890-1916 -- 4. Riding the dream: from realism to renaissance, 1917-1921 -- 5. In De Lawd's pastures: conflict and compromise, the 1920s -- 6. "Double, double, toil and trouble": the depression years and the FTP, the 1930s -- 7. "Cast down your buckets where you are": the rise of the pre-World War II little theater -- 8. A hunger for truth: the theater of protest, the 1960s -- 9. Is the rainbow enuf?: new directions in the 1970s and today. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer. |
| Subject |
African American theater -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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African American theater. |
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History. |
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Drama. |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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History.
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Juvenile works.
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| ISBN |
0690041284 |
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9780690041286 |
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0690041292 (library binding) |
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9780690041293 (library binding) |
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