White people do not know how to behave at entertainments designed for ladies & gentlemen of colour :William Brown's African & American theater
- 作者: McAllister, Marvin Edward,
- 出版:
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (x, 239 pages).
- 標題: Brown, William Alexander. , PERFORMING ARTS , African American theater. , 1800-1899 , African American theater , Electronic books. , African American theater New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century. , Electronic book. , TheaterGeneral. , History. , New York (State) New York. , PERFORMING ARTS Theater -- General. , New York (State) , History
- ISBN: 0807862606 , 9780807862605
- ISBN: 0807827770 , 9780807827772 , 0807854506 , 9780807854501
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index. Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Late-Night Pleasure Garden for People of Color: Noah's African Grove -- Hung Be the Heavens with Black: Toward a Minor Theater -- American Taste and Genius: Building an American Theater -- Tom and Jerry Meets Three-Fingered Jack: The African Company's Balancing Act -- In Fear of His Opposition: Euro-New York Reacts -- Conclusion: To Be, or Not to Be -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- 摘要: An exploration of the career of William Brown, a 19th-century free man of colour, who pioneered theatrical spaces for black New Yorkers, hitherto denied access to whites-only venues. The text explores these intercultural, multiracial environments and investigates negative white reactions.
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- 系統號: 005305300
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In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship's steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan's West Side. It catered to black New Yorkers, who were barred admittance to whites-only venues offering drama, music, and refreshment. Over the following two years, Brown expanded his enterprises, founding a series of theaters that featured African Americans playing a range of roles unprecedented on the American stage and that drew increasingly integrated audiences. Marvin McAllister explores Brown's pioneering career and reveals how each of Brown's ventures--the African Grove, the Minor Theatre, the American Theatre, and the African Company--explicitly cultivated an intercultural, multiracial environment. He also investigates the negative white reactions, verbal and physical, that led to Brown's managerial retirement in 1823. Brown left his mark on American theater by shaping the careers of his performers and creating new genres of performance. Beyond that legacy, says McAllister, this nearly forgotten theatrical innovator offered a blueprint for a truly inclusive national theater.
來源: Google Book
來源: Google Book
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