Paul Robeson and the Cold War performance complex : race, madness, activism /
Perucci, Tony.
Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press,
c2012.
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.
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
Performance art
Freedom and art
Politics and culture
Cold War
Racism
Anti-communist movements