The scene of Harlem cabaret : race, sexuality, performance /
Vogel, Shane.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.
Introduction: Against uplift : performance, literature, and the queer Harlem Renaissance -- American cabaret performance and the production of intimacy -- The scene of Harlem cabaret : 1926 and after -- Closing time : Langston Hughes and the queer poetics of Harlem nightlife -- Rereading Du Bois reading McKay : uplift sociology and the problem of amusement -- Lena Horne's impersona -- Afterword: Irrealizing the queer Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem Renaissance.
African American entertainers
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
Performing arts
Homosexuality
African Americans
African Americans