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11 Cards in this Set
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theatre can do 3 things w/ identity
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reflect a culture's view of a group
reinforce a particular view of group remake a culture's understanding of a group |
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roots of african american performance
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came to america, story telling, song, dance, joke-telling
performed for black and whtie audiences |
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place in NYC where A-As would commonly perform here
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african grove playhouse- headed by william henry brown
King Shotaway-first play by an African American Ira Aldridge- famous actor |
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black face minstrelsy
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started w/song "jump Jim Crow" by T.D. Rice
White men put on black cork perform songs, skits, monologues racial caricature: thick accents, "lazy negro" |
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The black musical
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invented by black community
ppular w/ all audiences a trip to coontown by cole and johnson black character in white faces |
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reawaking and renaissance
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langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston wrote plays
Explore America's racial hybridity 1920s and 30s |
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THe black arts movements
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1950s-70s
Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry youngest person to present a play on Broadway family problems, complicated by race |
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Dutchman by Amiri Baraka
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questions show whites and black stereotype each other
focuz on injustice and racisim theatre as a weapon |
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August Wilson
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known for Pittsburgh /Centur cycle
use of realism and magic realism song of german father and black mother :felt his "between-ness" uses European tradition (realism )+politics of Amiri Baraka Argued against color-blind casting |
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Suzan-Lori Parks
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African Amercans' connections to U.S. history
adapts classic literature combines realism and anti real teaches playwriting |
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