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

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Bibliographic Details
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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