Paul Robeson and the Cold War performance complex [electronic resource] : race, madness, activism / Tony Perucci.
Series: Theater--theory/text/performancePublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.Description: xii, 217 p. : illSubject(s):- 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
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- E185.97.R63 P47 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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