Historical Dictionary of African American Theater (eBook)

Anthony D. Hill (Autor)

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2018 | 2., Second Edition
754 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1729-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater reflects the rich history and representation of the black aesthetic and the significance of African American theater's history, fleeting present, and promise to the future. It celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States and the thousands of black theater artists across the country-identifying representative black theaters, playwrights, plays, actors, directors, and designers and chronicling their contributions to the field from the birth of black theater in 1816 to the present.This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on actors, playwrights, plays, musicals, theatres, -directors, and designers. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know and more about African American Theater.

Autor

Anthony D. Hill, emeritus professor, Department of Theatre, The Ohio State, is a writer, director, and administrator who also taught at Queens College, Vassar College and University of California at Santa Barbara. He is author of The A to Z of African American Theatre (2009); Historical Dictionary of African American Theatre (2008); and Pages from the HarlemRenaissance: A Chronicle of Performance (1996, fourth printing).

Inhalt

Editor’s Foreword: Jon WoronoffPrefaceAcronyms and AbbreviationsChronologyIntroductionTHE DICTIONARYAppendicesBibliographyAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
• Zusatzinfo: 26 Illustrations including: - 26 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: African American theater • Black theater • Broadway • Comedy • Drama • Ethnicity • Genres • Musicals • performers • PLAYS • Playwrights • Theater
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-1729-0 / 1538117290
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-1729-3 / 9781538117293