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Author Perucci, Tony.

Title Paul Robeson and the Cold War performance complex [electronic resource] : race, madness, activism / Tony Perucci.

Imprint Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 217 p. : ill.
Series Theater--theory/text/performance
Theater--theory/text/performance.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780472071685 (cloth alk. paper)
9780472051687 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780472028207 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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