The Black Circuit Race, Performance, and Spectatorship in Black Popular Theatre Sociology Re-Wired Series
Auteur : McMahon Rashida Z. Shaw
The Black Circuit: Race, Performance, and Spectatorship in Black Popular Theatre presents the first book-length study of Chitlin Circuit theatre, the most popular and controversial form of Black theatre to exist outside the purview of Broadway since the 1980s. Through historical and sociological research, Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon links the fraught racial histories in American slave plantations and early African American cuisine to the performance sites of nineteenth-century minstrelsy, early-twentieth-century vaudeville, and mid-twentieth-century gospel musicals. The Black Circuit traces this rise of a Black theatrical popular culture that exemplifies W. E. B. Du Bois?s 1926 parameters of "for us, near us, by us, and about us," with critical differences that, McMahon argues, complicate our understanding of performance and spectatorship in African American theatre. McMahon shows how an integrated and evolving network of consumerism, culture, circulation, exchange, ideologies, and meaning making has emerged in the performance environments of Chitlin Circuit theatre that is reflective of the broader influences at play in acts of minority spectatorship. She labels this network the Black Circuit.
Contents
- The Black Circuit
- Slow Roasted Chitterlings
- Looking for Langston
- David Talbert: Resurrecting Langston
- Johnson and Guidry: Vaudeville 2.0
- Tyler Perry: Minstrelsy Inverted
- Small Acts: The Politics of Black Theatrical Pleasure
Acknowledgments
Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon is an Assistant Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty of African American Studies at Wesleyan University. Her research uses interdisciplinary methodologies and collaborative approaches toward examining the dramatic and performance traditions of Africa and the African diaspora. Professor Shaw McMahon is originally from the island of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands.
Date de parution : 03-2020
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 03-2020
15.2x22.9 cm
Thèmes de The Black Circuit :
Mots-clés :
Chicago Transit Authority; Young Man; African Americans; Black Fantastic; African American Spectators; African American Theatre; African American Playwright; Minority Spectatorship; Black Circuit; Black Popular Culture; Black Pleasure; African American Audiences; Black Nativity; Black Popular; Inspirational Theatre; Mama; Black Female Artist; African American Sermon; Paddy’s Bar; Vaudeville Theatre; Black Spectators; Black Audiences; Sweet Potato Pies; DVD Commentary; Theatrical Events