The Black circuit race, performance, and spectatorship in Black popular theatre / Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon.
| Author/creator | Shaw McMahon, Rashida Z. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Sociology re-wired |
| Contents | The Black circuit -- Slow roasted chitterlings -- David Talbert: resurrecting Langston -- Johnson and Guidry: vaudeville 2.0 -- Tyler Perry: minstrelsy inverted -- Small acts: the politics of Black theatrical pleasure. |
| Abstract | "The Black Circuit examines Chitlin Circuit musicals, from Langston Hughes to Tyler Perry. Through historical and sociological research, Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon identifies how these popular, yet alienated, events shed new and light on the reception of black performances by black spectators and African American theatre-making"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019031773 |
| ISBN | 9781138046733 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781138046740 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |