Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre
by
Rena Fraden
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521443598
ISBN-13
9780521443593
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 29th, 1994
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
546 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.10 x 2.30 cms
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Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre, 1935–1939 focuses on the struggles of various groups of black and white critics, audiences, and artists to define what constituted authentic, properly representative African American art in the theatre of the 1930s.
In the 1930s, the Work Progress Administration funded a massive Federal Theatre Project in America's major urban centres, presenting hundreds of productions, some of the most popular and memorable of which were produced in the highly controversial and avant garde 'Negro Units'. This experiment in government-supported culture brought to the forefront one of the central problems in American democratic culture - the representation of racial difference. Those in the profession quickly discovered inescapable ideological responsibilities attending any sort of show, whether apparently entertaining or political in nature. Exploring the liberal idealism of the thirties and the critical debates in black journals over the role of an African American theatre, Fraden also looks at the obstacles facing black playwrights, audiences, and actors in a changing milieu.
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