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000436000 1001_ $$aWilson, James F.
000436000 24510 $$aBulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies :$$bperformance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance /$$cJames F. Wilson.
000436000 260__ $$aAnn Arbor :$$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$$cc2010.
000436000 300__ $$aix, 260 p. :$$bill. ;$$c23 cm.
000436000 4901_ $$aTriangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance
000436000 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000436000 5050_ $$aIntroduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "You've seen Harlem at its best".
000436000 520__ $$aThis work shines the spotlight on historically neglected plays and performances that challenged early twentieth-century notions of the stratification of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. On Broadway stages, in Harlem nightclubs and dance halls, and within private homes sponsoring rent parties, African American performers of the 1920s and early 1930s teased the limits of white middle-class morality. Blues-singing lesbians, popularly known as "bulldaggers," performed bawdy songs; cross-dressing men vied for the top prizes in lavish drag balls; and black and white women flaunted their sexuality in scandalous melodramas and musical revues. Race leaders, preachers, and theater critics spoke out against these performances that threatened to undermine social and political progress, but to no avail: mainstream audiences could not get enough of the riotous entertainment.  Many of the plays and performances explored here, central to the cultural debates of their time, had been previously overlooked by theater historians. Among the performances discussed are David Belasco's controversial production of Edward Sheldon and Charles MacArthur's Lulu Belle (1926), with its raucous, libidinous view of Harlem. The title character, as performed by a white woman in blackface, became a symbol of defiance for the gay subculture and was simultaneously held up as a symbol of supposedly immoral black women. African Americans Florence Mills and Ethel Waters, two of the most famous performers of the 1920s, countered the Lulu Belle stereotype in written statements and through parody, thereby reflecting the powerful effect this fictional character had on the popular imagination.  This work is based on historical archival research including readings of eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, songs, and playscripts. Employing a cultural studies framework that incorporates queer and critical race theory, it argues against the widely held belief that the stereotypical forms of black, lesbian, and gay show business of the 1920s prohibited the emergence of distinctive new voices.
000436000 650_0 $$aAmerican drama$$xAfrican American authors$$xHistory and criticism.
000436000 650_0 $$aAmerican drama$$y20th century$$xHistory and criticism.
000436000 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans in the performing arts$$zNew York (State)$$zNew York$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000436000 650_0 $$aTheater$$zNew York (State)$$zNew York$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000436000 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans$$zNew York (State)$$zNew York$$xIntellectual life.
000436000 650_0 $$aHarlem Renaissance.
000436000 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans in literature.
000436000 650_0 $$aRace in literature.
000436000 650_0 $$aSex in the theater.
000436000 651_0 $$aHarlem (New York, N.Y.)$$xIntellectual life$$y20th century.
000436000 830_0 $$aTriangulations.
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