This definitive history of African-American theatre embraces companies from across the U.S., as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-American companies touring Europe, Australia and Africa. Representing a catholicity of styles, from African ritual to European forms, amateur to professional, and political nationalism to integration, the volume covers all aspects of performance. It includes minstrel, vaudeville, and cabaret acts, as well as shows written by whites that used black casts.
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"The complete historical reference for the African American theatre lover." Family Digest Magazine
"Though many mourn the recent loss of Errol Hill, he and Hatch leave a lasting legacy with this valuable and comprehensive history.... Both Hill and Hatch have already been instrumental in providing extensive scholarship and criticism of African American theater and drama, and this volume broadens that investigation.... The book clarifies the reality that African American contributions to theater can no longer be ignored or relegated to 'token paragraphs.' Essential." Choice
"Impressive in scope, this magisterial history of the hardships and achievements of black creators of theatre in America takes the reader from the early-1400s origins of the African slave trade to events-in-progress at certain theatres in the spring of 2001, includes theatrical forms like minstrelsy and vaudeville, and looks at African American theatre in cities all across the United States as well as in the Caribbean. [...] surely takes its place as our definitive work on the subject. Theatre History Studies HB ISBN (2003) 0-521-62443-6
"Though many mourn the recent loss of Errol Hill, he and Hatch leave a lasting legacy with this valuable and comprehensive history.... Both Hill and Hatch have already been instrumental in providing extensive scholarship and criticism of African American theater and drama, and this volume broadens that investigation.... The book clarifies the reality that African American contributions to theater can no longer be ignored or relegated to 'token paragraphs.' Essential." Choice
"Impressive in scope, this magisterial history of the hardships and achievements of black creators of theatre in America takes the reader from the early-1400s origins of the African slave trade to events-in-progress at certain theatres in the spring of 2001, includes theatrical forms like minstrelsy and vaudeville, and looks at African American theatre in cities all across the United States as well as in the Caribbean. [...] surely takes its place as our definitive work on the subject. Theatre History Studies HB ISBN (2003) 0-521-62443-6
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This is the first definitive history of African-American theatre. The text embraces a wide geography, investigating companies from coast to coast as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African American companies touring Europe, Australia and Africa. This history represents a catholicity of styles--from African ritual to European forms, from amateur to professional, and from political nationalism to integration. The volume covers all aspects of performance, including minstrel, vaudeville, and cabaret acts, as well as shows written by Whites that used black casts.
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It's all here - slavery to european, amateur to professional,
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This review is from: A History of African American Theatre (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) (Hardcover)
Many of us take for granted the ability to go out on the town and enjoy a play about African Americans. Such plays as A Raisin in the Sun, Dream Girls, and The Piano Lesson have found their way into the hearts of many a theater goer and into the cultural makeup of this country. However, the making of these plays would not have been possible if not for the struggle and sacrifices of many theatrical pioneers. A History of African American Theatre by Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch is an extensive anthology of all types of African American theatre that gives a wonderful historical perspective that we can use to interpret some of what we see today. The book includes information on minstrels, vaudeville, cabaret acts, musicals, and opera. It's the complete historical reference for the African American theatre lover.In truth, this book also was exciting to some of my friends who are more history buffs than theatre lovers. I also confess to being very impressed with the author, Mr. Hill, who was the foremost historical scholar in the African American and Caribbean theatre fields and produced and directed more than 120 plays and pageants during a life recently cut short by cancer. Although I never had the pleasure of meeting him, he clearly was a giant! The book's appeal - like the book itself - has great breadth & depth.
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Great treasure for African American Theatre,
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Hill and Hatch should be very proud of the scholarship that they have in this book. The reader will get a very comprehensive view of African American/Black theatre from slavery forward. It also provides great connections(in depth biographies) on earlier mentioned proprietors of theater and actors that are mentioned in elsewhere in the text.
With the text not only are you able see the history of theater through the lens of the African American experience, but you are also able to see some similar troubles and business cycles of the companies. I also was elated to see the comprising of a Black aesthetic in regards to theater; theater themes that are unique to this experience. My only critique is that I wish they would have spent more time on the eleven survival strategies. This would have made the book instrumental in creating a theater that would survive. They could have sought out those that were doing this and which had the most of the strategies.
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African-Amerian theatre, African-american History, African-American music history,
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This is the most comprehensive and accurate book on the subject that I have seen. As a researcher in the field of music and African-American history, I was delighted to find it.
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New York, African American, United States, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Bert Williams, Howard University, Langston Hughes, North Carolina, Pekin Theatre, New Orleans, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Georgia Minstrels, The Green Pastures, Black Patti, Ernest Hogan, Ira Aldridge, August Wilson, Harlem Renaissance, Lincoln Center, Paul Robeson, Bob Cole, Hyers Sisters, Owen Dodson, Sam Lucas New!
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- Blacks in Blackface: A Source Book on Early Black Musical Shows by Henry T. Sampson on 6 pages
- A Raisin in the Sun (Signet) by Lorraine Hansberry on 6 pages
- Black Musical Theatre: From Coontown to Dreamgirls by Allen L. Woll on 5 pages
- Contemporary Plays by Women of Color: An Anthology by Kathy A. Perkins on 4 pages
- Before The Mayflower: A History of Black America 1619-1964: The Classic Account of the Struggles and Triumphs of Black Americans by Lerone Bennett Jr. on 4 pages
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- Granta 92: The View From Africa (Granta: The Magazine Of New Writing S.) by Ian Jack on page 74
- Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic by Sean X. Goudie in Back Matter
- The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement by Judith L. Stephens in Front Matter
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