The Black circuit race, performance, and spectatorship in Black popular theatre / Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon.

SeriesSociology 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2019031773
ISBN9781138046733 (hardback)
ISBN9781138046740 (paperback)
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