Barbara L Webb
Biographic Data
| ID | 3981891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara L Webb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara L |
| FAMILY NAME | Webb |
| SIGNATURE | WEBB B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Northwestern University where she is writing a dissertation on the African American negotiation of racial identity in Ragtimeera popular entertainments. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Authentic Possibilities: Plantation Performance of the 1890s
African American theatre history has traditionally been a story of progress in which real and authentic representations of black culture displace false and coerced ones. Often, this story finds only a lack of agency or cultural betrayal in black participation in, and attendance at nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century popular entertainments. This case study of two plantation-themed shows from the late 1890s, South Before the War and Black Ameri…
The Black Dandyism of George Walker: A Case Study in Genealogical Method
Refusing to re-enact caricatures, Walker, at the turn of the 20th century, reclaimed the figure of the dandy from racist minstrelsy and rearticulated it within an African American context
Authentic Possibilities: Plantation Performance of the 1890s
African American theatre history has traditionally been a story of progress in which real and authentic representations of black culture displace false and coerced ones. Often, this story finds only a lack of agency or cultural betrayal in black participation in, and attendance at nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century popular entertainments. This case study of two plantation-themed shows from the late 1890s, South Before the War and Black Ameri…
The Black Dandyism of George Walker: A Case Study in Genealogical Method
Refusing to re-enact caricatures, Walker, at the turn of the 20th century, reclaimed the figure of the dandy from racist minstrelsy and rearticulated it within an African American context
Authentic Possibilities: Plantation Performance of the 1890s
African American theatre history has traditionally been a story of progress in which real and authentic representations of black culture displace false and coerced ones. Often, this story finds only a lack of agency or cultural betrayal in black participation in, and attendance at nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century popular entertainments. This case study of two plantation-themed shows from the late 1890s, South Before the War and Black Ameri…
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Attendance (1 works)