{"product_id":"the-black-circuit-race-performance-and-spectatorship-in-black-popular-theatre-paperback","title":"The Black Circuit: Race, Performance, and Spectatorship in Black Popular Theatre - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRashida Z. Shaw McMahon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Black Circuit: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eRace, Performance, and Spectatorship in Black Popular Theatre\u003c\/em\u003e presents the first book-length study of Chitlin Circuit theatre, the most popular and controversial form of Black theatre to exist outside the purview of Broadway since the 1980s. Through historical and sociological research, Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon links the fraught racial histories in American slave plantations and early African American cuisine to the performance sites of nineteenth-century minstrelsy, early-twentieth-century vaudeville, and mid-twentieth-century gospel musicals. \u003ci\u003eThe Black Circuit \u003c\/i\u003etraces this rise of a Black theatrical popular culture that exemplifies W. E. B. Du Bois's 1926 parameters of \"for us, near us, by us, and about us,\" with critical differences that, McMahon argues, complicate our understanding of performance and spectatorship in African American theatre. McMahon shows how an integrated and evolving network of consumerism, culture, circulation, exchange, ideologies, and meaning making has emerged in the performance environments of Chitlin Circuit theatre that is reflective of the broader influences at play in acts of minority spectatorship. She labels this network\u003cem\u003e the Black Circuit\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRashida Z. Shaw McMahon\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Assistant Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty of African American Studies at Wesleyan University. Her research uses interdisciplinary methodologies and collaborative approaches toward examining the dramatic and performance traditions of Africa and the African diaspora. Professor Shaw McMahon is originally from the island of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 194\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 18, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52710353862963,"sku":"9781138046740","price":110.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Sndpb0QwYWp4SzJPQ2s1S1U3UUtzQT09.webp?v=1763489003","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-black-circuit-race-performance-and-spectatorship-in-black-popular-theatre-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}