The scene of Harlem cabaret
Subtitle: race, sexuality, performance
By: Shane Vogel.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780226862514; 9780226862521
Subjects: Harlem Renaissance; African American entertainers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Performing arts -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Homosexuality -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Against uplift : performance, literature, and the queer Harlem Renaissance; title: American cabaret performance and the production of intimacy; title: The scene of Harlem cabaret : 1926 and after; title: Closing time : Langston Hughes and the queer poetics of Harlem nightlife; title: Re-reading Du Bois reading McKay : uplift sociology and the problem of amusement; title: Lena Horne's impersona; title: Afterword: Irrealizing the queer Harlem Renaissance.