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The scene of Harlem cabaret : race, sexuality, performance
- Author
- Vogel, Shane.
- Title
- The scene of Harlem cabaret : race, sexuality, performance / Shane Vogel.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Description
- xiii, 257 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction: Against uplift : performance, literature, and the queer Harlem Renaissance
- American cabaret performance and the production of intimacy
- The scene of Harlem cabaret : 1926 and after
- Closing time : Langston Hughes and the queer poetics of Harlem nightlife
- Rereading Du Bois reading McKay : uplift sociology and the problem of amusement
- Lena Horne's impersona
- Afterword: Irrealizing the queer Harlem Renaissance.
- Kinsey subjects
- Art--United States--New York--20th century. Afroamericans--New York. Afroamericans and homosexuality. Theater--United States--New York. Attitudes on homosexuality.
- ISBN
- 9780226862514 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226862518 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226862521 (paper : alk. paper) 0226862526 (paper : alk. paper)