Paul Robeson and the Cold War performance complex race, madness, activism / [electronic resource] :
Tony Perucci.
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.
- xii, 217 p. : ill.
- Theater--theory/text/performance .
- Theater--theory/text/performance. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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--History--United States--20th century. Anti-communist movements--History--United States--20th century.