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Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre Paperback - 1996

by Rena Fraden


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During the 1930s the Work Progress Administration funded the Federal Theater Project to sustain unemployed theatrical workers in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other major urban centers, employing over 12,000 people and presenting countless productions. Some of the most popular and memorable of these works, such as the "voodoo" Macbeth and the "swing" Mikado, were produced in the so-called Negro Units, whose story is narrated in this book. Particular focus is given to problems of representation in a community and in an era trying to define what was African American, what was Negro, what was American, what was peculiar, and what was universal in the arts.

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Most historians of the New Deal pose the same questions.

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Blue Print for a Black Federal Theatre is compelling...Fraden powerfully states that no group in America has been so invidiously represented onstage and so relentlessly prevented from working backstage.

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  • Title Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre
  • Author Rena Fraden
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 268
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date 1996-06-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521565608 / 052156560X
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.97 x 5.92 x 0.73 in (22.78 x 15.04 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Theater - United States - History - 20th, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.089
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In the 1930s, the Work Progress Administration funded a massive Federal Theatre Project in America's major urban centres, presenting hundreds of productions, some of the most popular and memorable of which were produced in the highly controversial and avant garde 'Negro Units'. This experiment in government-supported culture brought to the forefront one of the central problems in American democratic culture - the representation of racial difference. Those in the profession quickly discovered inescapable ideological responsibilities attending any sort of show, whether apparently entertaining or political in nature. Exploring the liberal idealism of the thirties and the critical debates in black journals over the role of an African American theatre, Fraden also looks at the obstacles facing black playwrights, audiences, and actors in a changing milieu.
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