Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing : The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theatre /

Paula Marie Seniors's Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing explores the realities of African American life and history as refracted through the musical theater productions of one of the most prolific black song-writing teams of the early twentieth century. James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson,...

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Main Author: Seniors, Paula Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • The origins of the Cole and Johnson musical theater team
  • Cole and Johnson's social and political thought : the case of Shoo fly regiment and the Spanish-American war
  • Theatrical imaginings : Cole and Johnson's The shoo fly regiment
  • The red moon : the interconnections between theater and history, the black and native Americanization program at Hampton Institute
  • Cole and Johnson and the Gibson Gal : gender, race and uplift.