Perucci, Tony.

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.


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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.


United States--Race relations.


Electronic books.

E185.97.R63 / P47 2012eb

782.0092