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Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing

Seniors, Paula Marie.

Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theatre / [electronic resource] : Paula Marie Seniors. - Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2009. - 1 online resource (xv, 292 p. :) ill. ; - Black performance and cultural criticism . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-270) and index.

The origins of the Cole and Johnson musical theater team -- Cole and Johnson's social and political thought : the case of Shoo fly regiment and the Spanish-American war -- Theatrical imaginings : Cole and Johnson's The shoo fly regiment -- The red moon : the interconnections between theater and history, the black and native Americanization program at Hampton Institute -- Cole and Johnson and the Gibson Gal : gender, race and uplift.

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Cole, Bob, 1868-1911.
Johnson, J. Rosamond 1873-1954.
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.


Musical theater--History.--United States
African Americans in musical theater--History.


Electronic books.

ML1711 / .S46 2009

792.6089/96073