Paul Robeson and the Cold War performance complex
Subtitle: race, madness, activism
By: Tony Perucci
Series: Theater: theory/text/performance
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780472071685; 9780472051687; 9780472028207
Subjects: Politics and culture; Freedom and art; Race relations; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities; Cold War; Performance art; Racism; United States; Anti-communist movements; Political activity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the red mask of sanity; title: Tonal treason and HUAC's psychoanalytic theater. Black performances and the stagecraft of statecraft; title: Performing, informing, and shrieking innocence:  surveillance, informance, and the performance of performance; title: Discordant tones and the melody of freedom at Peekskill; title: Anticommunism and the American lynching imagination; title: Shedding blood and beating back fascists; title: Staging anticommunism, staging racist violence; title: Coda:  the complex and the rupture.