Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing (CD-ROM)

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• Format: CD-ROM   Learn more about the CD-ROM format using Tower WIKI.
• Number of Pages: 368
• ISBN: 0814291988
• WAPI (Tower ID): 113577516
• Release Date: July 15, 2009
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #865581 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
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• #256 in American - African American & Black (See Top 100 American - African American & Black Bestsellers)

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Paula Marie Seniors's "Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sin"g is an engaging and well-researched book that explores the realities of 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. James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson, and Bob Cole combined conservative and progressive ideas in a complex and historically specific strategy for overcoming racism and its effects. In "Shoo Fly Regiment" (1906-1908) and "The Red Moon "(1908-1910), theater, uplift, and politics collided as the team tried to communicate a politics of uplift, racial pride, gender equality, and interethnic coalitions. The overarching question of this study is how roles and representations in black musical theater both reflected and challenged the dominant social order. While some scholars dismiss the team as conformists, Seniors's contention is that they used the very tools of hegemony to make progressive political statements and to create a distinctly black theater informed by black politics, history, and culture. These men were writers, musicians, actors, and vaudevillians who strove to change the perception of African Americans on stage from one of minstrelsy buffoonery to one of dignity and professionalism.

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