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Paul Robeson and the Cold War performance complex race, madness, activism /

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Main Author: Perucci, Tony
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.
Series:Theater--theory/text/performance.
Subjects:
Robeson, Paul, > 1898-1976 > Political activity.
United States. > Congress. > House. > Committee on Un-American Activities.
Performance art > Political aspects > United States.
Freedom and art > Political aspects > United States.
Politics and culture > United States.
Cold War > Social aspects > United States.
Racism > United States > History > 20th century.
Anti-communist movements > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the red mask of sanity
  • Tonal treason and HUAC's psychoanalytic theater. Black performances and the stagecraft of statecraft
  • Performing, informing, and shrieking innocence: surveillance, informance, and the performance of performance
  • Discordant tones and the melody of freedom at Peekskill
  • Anticommunism and the American lynching imagination
  • Shedding blood and beating back fascists
  • Staging anticommunism, staging racist violence
  • Coda: the complex and the rupture.

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