Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex : Race, Madness, Activism.
Title:
Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex : Race, Madness, Activism.
Author:
Perucci, Tony.
ISBN:
9780472028207
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (232 pages)
Series:
Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: The Red Mask of Sanity -- Part I: Tonal Treason and HUAC's Psychoanalytic Theater -- One: Black Performances and the Stagecraft of Statecraft -- Two: Performing Informing and Shrieking Innocence: Surveillance, Informance, and the Performance of Performance -- Part II: Discordant Tones and the Melody of Freedom at Peekskill -- Three: Anticommunism and the American Lynching Imagination -- Four: Shedding Blood and Beating Back Fascists -- Five: Staging Anticommunism, Staging Racist Violence -- Coda: The Complex and the Rupture -- Appendix: Testimony of Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 12, 1956 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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