Historical Dictionary of African American Theater

Anthony D. Hill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

754 Seiten

2018 | 2nd edition
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1728-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

Editor’s Foreword: Jon Woronoff
Preface
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Appendices
Bibliography
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	07.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
Zusatzinfo	26 b/w photos
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 228 mm
Gewicht	1184 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
ISBN-10	1-5381-1728-2 / 1538117282
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-1728-6 / 9781538117286
Zustand	Neuware