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Aida Overton Walker

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Author : Brijae Morris
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781984096333
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Aida Overton Walker written by Brijae Morris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colorfully illustrated biography depicts Aida Overton Walker's glamorous stage life and her contributions to breaking stereotypes of black women. From a daughter of a seamstress and waiter to 'The Queen of the Cakewalk', Aida Overton Walker was one of the first international black performers. Aida, the charismatic jewel of Broadway, became the most popular black dancer, choreographer, comedienne and singer of her time. Learn her fascinating story that was forgotten to history.

In Dahomey

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Author : Jesse A Shipp
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498183055
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book In Dahomey written by Jesse A Shipp and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.

Staging Race

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Author : Karen Sotiropoulos
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043871
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Staging Race written by Karen Sotiropoulos and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Race casts a spotlight on the generation of black artists who came of age between 1890 and World War I in an era of Jim Crow segregation and heightened racial tensions. As public entertainment expanded through vaudeville, minstrel shows, and world's fairs, black performers, like the stage duo of Bert Williams and George Walker, used the conventions of blackface to appear in front of, and appeal to, white audiences. At the same time, they communicated a leitmotif of black cultural humor and political comment to the black audiences segregated in balcony seats. With ingenuity and innovation, they enacted racial stereotypes onstage while hoping to unmask the fictions that upheld them offstage. Drawing extensively on black newspapers and commentary of the period, Karen Sotiropoulos shows how black performers and composers participated in a politically charged debate about the role of the expressive arts in the struggle for equality. Despite the racial violence, disenfranchisement, and the segregation of virtually all public space, they used America's new businesses of popular entertainment as vehicles for their own creativity and as spheres for political engagement. The story of how African Americans entered the stage door and transformed popular culture is a largely untold story. Although ultimately unable to erase racist stereotypes, these pioneering artists brought black music and dance into America's mainstream and helped to spur racial advancement.

A Beautiful Pageant

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Author : D. Krasner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137066253
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book A Beautiful Pageant written by D. Krasner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Harlem Renaissance was an unprecedented period of vitality in the American Arts. Defined as the years between 1910 and 1927, it was the time when Harlem came alive with theater, drama, sports, dance and politics. Looking at events as diverse as the prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jim 'White Hope' Jeffries, the choreography of Aida Walker and Ethel Waters, the writing of Zora Neale Hurston and the musicals of the period, Krasner paints a vibrant portrait of those years. This was the time when the residents of northern Manhattan were leading their downtown counterparts at the vanguard of artistic ferment while at the same time playing a pivotal role in the evolution of Black nationalism. This is a thrilling piece of work by an author who has been working towards this major opus for years now. It will become a classic that will stay on the American history and theater shelves for years to come.

Bodies in Dissent

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Author : Daphne Brooks
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822337225
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Bodies in Dissent written by Daphne Brooks and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance and identity in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Arican-American creative work.

Moving Performances

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Author : Jeanne Scheper
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813585465
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Moving Performances written by Jeanne Scheper and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fabulous yet fierce, imperious yet impetuous, boss yet bitchy—divas are figures of paradox. Their place in culture is equally contradictory, as they are simultaneously venerated and marginalized, hailed as timeless but then frequently forgotten or exhumed as cult icons by future generations. Focusing on four early twentieth-century divas—Aida Overton Walker, Loïe Fuller, Libby Holman, and Josephine Baker—who were icons in their own time, Moving Performances considers what their past and current reception reveals about changing ideas of race and gender. Jeanne Scheper examines how iconicity can actually work to the diva’s detriment, reducing her to a fetish object, a grotesque, or a figure of nostalgia. Yet she also locates more productive modes of reception that reach to revive the diva’s moving performances, imbuing her with an affective afterlife. As it offers innovative theorizations of performance, reception, and affect, Moving Performances also introduces readers to four remarkable women who worked as both cultural producers and critics, deftly subverting the tropes of exoticism, orientalism, and primitivism commonly used to dismiss women of color. Rejecting iconic depictions of these divas as frozen in a past moment, Scheper vividly demonstrates how their performances continue to inspire ongoing movements.

Cakewalking with Queen Aida

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Author : Dr. Karen Campbell Kuebler
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Cakewalking with Queen Aida written by Dr. Karen Campbell Kuebler and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the foot-shuffling, high-kicking, leg-marching Cakewalk Dance with the Queen of the Cakewalk: Aida Overton Walker. She started dancing as a child at her local dance studio in New York City and grew up to share her dancing and choreographic talents by touring around America and Europe from the 1890s through 1914. Walker's performances were described as theatrical, artistic, and refined. Connect with the past, learn some American history, and have fun with Queen Aida and the Cakewalk!

Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing

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Author : Paula Marie Seniors
Publisher : Black performance and Cultural Criticism
ISBN 13 : 9780814254790
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing written by Paula Marie Seniors and published by Black performance and Cultural Criticism. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing explores African American life and history as refracted through the musical theater productions of one of the most prolific black song-writing teams of the early twentieth century. This study's overarching question is how representations in black musical theater reflected and challenged the dominant social order.

The Product of Our Souls

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Author : David Gilbert
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146962270X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Product of Our Souls written by David Gilbert and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The first concert by an African American ensemble at the esteemed venue was more than just a concert--it was a political act of desegregation, a defiant challenge to the status quo in American music. In this book, David Gilbert explores how Europe and other African American performers, at the height of Jim Crow, transformed their racial difference into the mass-market commodity known as "black music." Gilbert shows how Europe and others used the rhythmic sounds of ragtime, blues, and jazz to construct new representations of black identity, challenging many of the nation's preconceived ideas about race, culture, and modernity and setting off a musical craze in the process. Gilbert sheds new light on the little-known era of African American music and culture between the heyday of minstrelsy and the Harlem Renaissance. He demonstrates how black performers played a pioneering role in establishing New York City as the center of American popular music, from Tin Pan Alley to Broadway, and shows how African Americans shaped American mass culture in their own image.

Beyond Blackface

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Author : William Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807834629
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Blackface written by William Fitzhugh Brundage and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Blackface

Bert Williams

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Author : Eric Ledell Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bert Williams written by Eric Ledell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 20th century, black musical shows, operettas, and revues were among America's most popular forms of entertainment. The foremost of the era's African-American entertainers was pantomime artist and comedian Bert Williams.With partner George Nash Walker, Williams starred in the first black musical to open on Broadway, In Dahomey (which became the first black show to give a command performance before English royalty). In 1910, he joined Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies--the only black then regularly appearing on Broadway.Williams' career was marked by racism. It's no disgrace to be a Negro but it's certainly an inconvenience, he said. Despite his status, Williams did not escape the burnt-cork makeup, never dropping the black caricature to move on to dramatic roles.

The Ancient World in Silent Cinema

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Author : Pantelis Michelakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110701610X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient World in Silent Cinema written by Pantelis Michelakis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic attempt to focus on the instrumental role of silent cinema in early twentieth-century conceptualizations of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. It is located at the intersection of film studies, classics, Bible studies and cultural studies.

Listen Again

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Author : Eric Weisbard
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822340416
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Listen Again written by Eric Weisbard and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCollection of essays on the history of pop music./div

African-American Performance and Theater History

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Author : Harry Justin Elam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195127256
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book African-American Performance and Theater History written by Harry Justin Elam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America.

Children Of The City

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Author : David Nasaw
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307816621
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Children Of The City written by David Nasaw and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.

Staging the Blues

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Author : Paige A. McGinley
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376318
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Staging the Blues written by Paige A. McGinley and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant costumes on tent show and black vaudeville stages. The press even described these women as "actresses" long before they achieved worldwide fame for their musical recordings. In Staging the Blues, Paige A. McGinley shows that even though folklorists, record producers, and festival promoters set the theatricality of early blues aside in favor of notions of authenticity, it remained creatively vibrant throughout the twentieth century. Highlighting performances by Rainey, Smith, Lead Belly, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee in small Mississippi towns, Harlem theaters, and the industrial British North, this pioneering study foregrounds virtuoso blues artists who used the conventions of the theater, including dance, comedy, and costume, to stage black mobility, to challenge narratives of racial authenticity, and to fight for racial and economic justice.

My Mother's Cupboards & My Father's Words

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999349448
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book My Mother's Cupboards & My Father's Words written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unexpectedly wicked narrative exploring a claustrophobic relationship." [Artist's statement].