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  • Theatre History Studies 2024, Vol 43

    by Daniel E. Atkinson, Ashlyn King Baruti, David Bisaha, Julie Burrell, Jordana Cox, Jordan A. Ealey, Eric M. Glover, Adam Goldstein, Chao Guo, Amy B. Huang, Ariel Nereson, Zachary F. Price, Danielle Rosvally, Leticia L. Ridley, Bradford G Sadler, Richard Sautter, Michael Schweikardt, Margo Skornia, Dennis Sloan, Josh Stenberg, Paul Michael Thomson, Scott Venters, Isaiah Matthew Wooden ...
    Series series Theatre History Studies
    The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre ConferenceWhere past and performance converge—scholarship that moves the stage forward.Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker

    The Price of Black Stardom in Jim Crow America

    by Daniel E. Atkinson ...
    The first biography of George Walker, a uniquely Afro-American tale of innovation and triumph despite the odds; the story of an underdog with a bite!Finalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Performing Arts & Music categoryThe Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker is the first biography dedicated to the life and cultural contributions of this actor, writer, and prod... ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • They All Played Ragtime - The True Story of an American Music

    by Rudi Blesh, Harriet Janis ...
    Blesh published They All Played Ragtime as first major scholarly work on ragtime music in 1950, which sparked a ragtime revival. He founded Circle Records in 1946, which recorded new material from aging early jazz musicians as well as the Library of Congress recordings of Jelly Roll Morton. He sparked renewed interest in the music of Joseph Lamb, James P. Johnson, and Eubie Blake, among others. ... Read more

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  • My Old Kentucky Home

    The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song

    by Emily Bingham ...
    The long journey of an American song, passed down from generation to generation, bridging a nation’s fraught disconnect between history and warped illusion, revealing the country's ever evolving self.MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME, from its enormous success in the early 1850s, written by a white man, considered the father of American music, about a Black man being sold downriver, performed for decades by ... Read more

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  • Joy Goddess

    A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance

    by A'Lelia Bundles ...
    FINALIST FOR THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD“Raucously immersive...An intimate portrait of Black opulence in the early 20th century.” —Oprah DailyA “scintillating, vibrant” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and deeply researched biography of A’Lelia Walker—daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and herself a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance—written ... ... Read more

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  • The Rose Man of Sing Sing

    A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism

    by James McGrath Morris ...
    This biography of the early 20th-century newspaper giant who became news after killing his wife "has the pace and detail of an engrossing historical novel" ( Boston Herald).As city editor of Joseph Pulitzer's New York Evening World, Charles E. Chapin was the quintessential newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly, setting the pace for evening press journalism with blockbuster stories from ... Read more

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  • Footnotes

    The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way

    by Caseen Gaines ...
    The triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre—and the world—forever."This musical introduced Black excellence to the Great White Way. Broadway was forever changed and we, who stand on the shoulders of our brilliant ancestors, are charged with the very often elusive task of carrying that torch into our present."—Billy Porter, Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award ... Read more

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  • Fortune's Fool

    The Life of John Wilkes Booth

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    With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and calamity of the Civil War, and the president's untimely death altered the trajectory of postwar history. But to those who knew Booth, the event was ... Read more

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  • When Broadway Was Black

    The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical that Changed the World

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    The untold story of the musical that revolutionized Broadway—and the Black artists who made it unforgettable."This musical introduced Black excellence to the Great White Way. Broadway was forever changed and we, who stand on the shoulders of our brilliant ancestors, are charged with the very often elusive task of carrying that torch into our present."—Billy Porter, Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award ... Read more

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  • Deaf Heritage

    A Narrative History of Deaf America

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    Series Book 7 - Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies
    Now, Jack R. Gannon’s original groundbreaking volume on Deaf history and culture is available once again. In Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America, Gannon brought together for the first time the story of the Deaf experience in America from a Deaf perspective. Recognizing the need to document the multifaceted history of this unique minority with its distinctive visual culture, he ... Read more

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  • En Route to the Great Eastern Circus and Other Essays on Circus History

    by William L. Slout ...
    William L. Slout, entertainment historian par excellence, here provides five fascinating essays on the development of the American traveling circus in the post-Civil War era: "En Route to the Great Eastern Circus" (on the creation of this great show); "The Great Eastern Circus of 1872" (more details about one of P. T. Barnum's rivals); "The Not-So-Great Trans-Atlantic Circus and Menagerie" (how a ... Read more

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