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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 249–274.
Published: 01 June 2000
... songwriters in Broad-
way musical theater. This songwriting team found themselves at the
center of a new community of black composers, songwriters, and
performers trained in black musical traditions by family and com...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 725–752.
Published: 01 December 2010
...-of-the-century American theater, Tin Pan Alley and the music industry, anthropology and ethnography in the southern United States, and Toomer's debts or relations to other writers of the Harlem Renaissance, among them James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, and Langston Hughes. © 2010 by Duke...
Journal Article
American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 443–472.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 poetry music theater popular culture Broadway allegoresis Comme tu me plairais, ô nuit! sans ces étoiles Dont la lumière parle un langage connu! —Charles Baudelaire, “Obsession,” Les Fleurs du mal (1857) (How you'd...
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in Street Scenes: Langston Hughes, Lyric Pop, and Walter Benjamin’s Baudelaire
> American Literature
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1 Photograph of the “Ice-Cream Sextet,” original Broadway production of Street Scene , Adelphi Theater, 1947. Courtesy of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, New York
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Journal Article
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 117–152.
Published: 01 March 2000
... the trans-
formation of blackface performance into a legitimate form of musical
theater, managers ‘‘enforced a new code of behavior, one that led to the
theater becoming aprivatespace for reflection, in effect a temple...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 883–884.
Published: 01 December 2003
...
Century is, in part, Sinfield’s reminder that the theater has been and continues
to be just as complex and contested a space for the representation of sexual
dissidents as, say, the modern novel or contemporary television. Theater...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 271–304.
Published: 01 June 2010
..., songsters, and sheet
music; and institutionalized in settings like the antislavery lecture cir-
cuit, the minstrel theater, the middle-class parlor, and the political
rally—contraband songs map the geography of wartime culture and
politics.
Most important, contraband songs map...
Journal Article
American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 357–385.
Published: 01 June 2000
... in media as diverse
as Broadway musical theater, opera, and children’s books. As these
projects suggest, Hughes’s ‘‘social art’’ worked toward the formation
of a public sphere that contested not only the dominant...
Journal Article
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 115–121.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., as an interlocking set of questions that range from novels to theater to music to activism; from Lorraine Hansberry and Miriam Makeba (Colbert) to Robert Moses and Fannie Lou Hamer (McGinley) to Richard Wright (Jones) and Ann Petry (Vogel). While the essays focus on the historical engagement between Black...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 429–431.
Published: 01 June 2019
... Chude-Sokei . Middletown, CT : Wesleyan Univ. Press . 2016 . 280 pp. Paper, $27.95 ; e-book, $21.99 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Early scholarship on black music took an orthodox approach, privileging the work of historians and musicologists. More recently, scholars...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 886–888.
Published: 01 December 2019
... is related to theatricality in the social construction of the self. Fitzgerald could “thematize his interest in drama and the theater” by situating The Great Gatsby around “the notion of social theatricality” (159). The Basil and Josephine stories both “bring into even greater relief the thematic...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 209–224.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood. 2003. xii, 177 pp. $49.95.
In reevaluating Odets’s legacy as a political playwright, Herr refracts the
plays’ formal elements through the economic, social, and political contexts
of the time, such as the financial situation of theater and film from the 1930s
through the 1950s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 347–375.
Published: 01 June 2018
... : Penguin . Webster Paula . 1984 . “ The Forbidden: Eroticism and Taboo .” In Vance 1984a , 385 – 98 . Wolf Stacy . 2007 . “ Wicked Divas, Musical Theater, and Internet Girl Fans .” Camera Obscura , no. 65 : 39 – 71 . ...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 61–90.
Published: 01 March 2003
... in the world. A ‘‘great engine of music it unlooses a ‘‘tem-
pest of sound that roars through the church till the windows quiver 4
Drawn throughout his fiction to spectacles of influence, Norris is here
led into ‘‘the very heart...
Journal Article
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 135–150.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in a still segregated US city. The movement of Black bodies informs theories of Black life both in quotidian dances and struts, such as Gleason’s, and in transnational exchanges and practices, including the music that Hansberry heard in the Village from singers like Makeba. Hansberry’s sketch affirms...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 854–856.
Published: 01 December 2005
...John Whalen-Bridge 2005 Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien . By Alex Vernon. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xi, 314 pp. $39.95; Hemingway's Theaters of Masculinity . By Thomas Strychacz. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2003...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 450–454.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., Stages of Life works through contemporary Latina theater using a trans-
cultural rubric first employed in Latin American anthropology. But Stages of
Life also reaches conclusions that echo Nagel’s because Sandoval-Sánchez...
Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 531–533.
Published: 01 September 2021
... all value is defined by the exchange of commodities. The scope of Autonomy is so wide that almost anything said about it will be an oversimplification. Brown’s argument is wide-ranging but comprehensive. He delves into, among other things, aesthetics, Marxism, philosophy, art criticism, and music...
Journal Article
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 623–625.
Published: 01 September 2014
... marked by its Cinderella-story plot and origins in musical the
ater. Although the attention to the sonic specificities of popular song from ear
lier chapters are here replaced by an account of the conventions of musical
theater, Graham’s focus on the value of popular culture remains a compel
ling...
Journal Article
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 611–614.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of popular song from ear
lier chapters are here replaced by an account of the conventions of musical
theater, Graham’s focus on the value of popular culture remains a compel
ling thread holding the book together.
If Graham’s mode is that of the patient historian, Comentale’s...
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