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Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre

Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre

Fraden, Rena
Gelpi, Albert
Posnock, Ross

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 81

Literary CriticismGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 0521443598
ISBN13: 9780521443593
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 29 1994
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.13
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
During the 1930s the Work Progress Administration funded the Federal Theater Project to sustain unemployed theatrical workers in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other major urban centers, employing over 12,000 people and presenting countless productions. Some of the most popular and memorable of these works, such as the voodoo Macbeth and the swing Mikado, were produced in the so-called Negro Units, whose story is narrated in this book. Particular focus is given to problems of representation in a community and in an era trying to define what was African American, what was Negro, what was American, what was peculiar, and what was universal in the arts.

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