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Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex: Race, Madness, Activism (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
Tony Perucci
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Description for Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex: Race, Madness, Activism (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
Paperback. Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era Num Pages: 217 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; AVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Actor and singer Paul Robeson's performances in Othello, Show Boat, and The Emperor Jones made him famous, but his midcentury appearances in support of causes ranging from labor and civil rights to anti-lynching and American warmongering made him notorious. When Robeson announced at the 1949 Paris Peace Conference that it was "unthinkable" for blacks to go to war against the Soviet Union, the mainstream American press declared him insane.
Notions of Communism, blackness, and insanity were interchangeably deployed during the Cold War to discount activism such as Robeson's, just a part of an array of social and cultural practices ... Read more
Actor and singer Paul Robeson's performances in Othello, Show Boat, and The Emperor Jones made him famous, but his midcentury appearances in support of causes ranging from labor and civil rights to anti-lynching and American warmongering made him notorious. When Robeson announced at the 1949 Paris Peace Conference that it was "unthinkable" for blacks to go to war against the Soviet Union, the mainstream American press declared him insane.
Notions of Communism, blackness, and insanity were interchangeably deployed during the Cold War to discount activism such as Robeson's, just a part of an array of social and cultural practices ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472051687
SKU
V9780472051687
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About Tony Perucci
Tony Perucci is Assistant Professor of Performance and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina.
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