Paige A Mcginley
Biographic Data
| ID | 822513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paige A Mcginley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paige A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcginley |
| SIGNATURE | MCGINLEY P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On (Not) Waiting for Godot
This article traces the reinvention and circulation of existential thought and action through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the first half of the 1960s, especially in Mississippi. Here, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, and the founders of the Free Southern Theater, among others, immersed themselves in the existential questions of freedom and responsibility, pointing the way toward ethical action at a time when there was, as the cha…
Existentialisms
Two Black men hang out on the street corner. They trade jokes, tell stories, pass the time. From time to time they are interrupted: by floodlights that freeze them in their tracks, by a strange white man seemingly plucked from another time, and finally, by a menacing racist cop. In playwright Antoinette Nwandu’s hands, this Beckettian tale shows us, perhaps, that the racial absurd (Vogel 2022) is not solely an applied or adapted European phenomen…
Freedom Time
Freedom Time:New Directions in Civil Rights Movement Scholarship Paige A. McGinley (bio) Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation. By Julius B. Fleming Jr. New York: New York University Press, 2022. 322 pages. $89.00 (cloth). $29.00 (paper). Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson. By Shana L. Redmond. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 208 pages. $94.95 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). Liv…
Experimenting with a New Technique
In the 1940s, organizers in the struggle for Black freedom, eager to distinguish themselves from the pacifist movement, began to introduce “experiments” in desegregation into their activities. Inspired by Gandhi and his interpreters, these actionists (as they called themselves) discovered and implemented the principles and practices of direct action that would later be used on a broad scale. At the time, direct action and civil disobedience were …
Rehearsing Revolutions
Reviewed by: Rehearsing Revolutions: The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism in the Early Twentieth Century by Mary McAvoy Paige A. McGinley REHEARSING REVOLUTIONS: THE LABOR DRAMA EXPERIMENT AND RADICAL ACTIVISM IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Mary McAvoy. Studies in Theatre History and Culture series. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019; pp. 266. For decades, a politically and pedagogically innovative theatrical form flourished…
Stolen Time
The calypso craze of the 1950s is so associated with a single megastar—Harry Belafonte—that it is not surprising that Shane Vogel's virtuosic Stolen Time opens with Belafonte's disavowal of a fad that was forever attempting to place him at its center. Vogel's book likewise stages a disappearing act for Belafonte, though his presence remains keenly felt. In doing so, Vogel allows lesser-known though no less significant performers to occupy center …
Generational Schism, Fannie Lou Hamer, and the Future of Protest
A couple of days after the 2016 election, poet Treasure Shields Redmond responded to a prompt asking about “the future of protest” by channeling a figure from protests past. In so doing she challenged the prevailing models of the relationship between Black Lives Matter activists and their generational elders
The Black Radical Tragic
June 01 2017 The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution. By Jeremy MatthewGlick. New York: New York University Press, 2016; 296 pp.; illustrations. $89.00 cloth, $27.00 paper, e-book available. Paige A. McGinley Paige A. McGinley Paige A. McGinley is Associate Professor of Performing Arts at Washington University …
"Reconsidering "the American Style
This essay explores the contributions of black performers and black music in two landmark collaborations among playwright tennessee Williams, director Elia Kazan, and designer Jo Mielziner: the 1947 premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire , and the 1955 premiere of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . With his strong directorial hand, Kazan amplified the black presence in both plays and used both black actors and black music to navigate the realistic and express…
Next Up Downtown
The work of seven up-and-coming performance companies—Hotel Savant, Temporary Distortion, New Paradise Laboratories, Knife, Inc., Ex.Pgirl, Witness Relocation, and Banana Bag & Bodice—explores intermediality transnationalism, and political affect. All emphasize the continued dominance of networked, spatialized storytelling
Highway 61 Revisited
Tracing the inverted traveling cultural roots of the Great Migration back toward the “source” of Delta blues music, blues tourists take a sonic journey from North to South in the U.S. that remembers black diasporic and migrational patterns of blues traveling—distinguishing between the economic, social, and political circumstances that often radically differentiate two modes of being “on the road.”
Disability and Contemporary Performance
Experimenting with a New Technique
In the 1940s, organizers in the struggle for Black freedom, eager to distinguish themselves from the pacifist movement, began to introduce “experiments” in desegregation into their activities. Inspired by Gandhi and his interpreters, these actionists (as they called themselves) discovered and implemented the principles and practices of direct action that would later be used on a broad scale. At the time, direct action and civil disobedience were …
Stolen Time
The calypso craze of the 1950s is so associated with a single megastar—Harry Belafonte—that it is not surprising that Shane Vogel's virtuosic Stolen Time opens with Belafonte's disavowal of a fad that was forever attempting to place him at its center. Vogel's book likewise stages a disappearing act for Belafonte, though his presence remains keenly felt. In doing so, Vogel allows lesser-known though no less significant performers to occupy center …
Disability and Contemporary Performance
Highway 61 Revisited
Tracing the inverted traveling cultural roots of the Great Migration back toward the “source” of Delta blues music, blues tourists take a sonic journey from North to South in the U.S. that remembers black diasporic and migrational patterns of blues traveling—distinguishing between the economic, social, and political circumstances that often radically differentiate two modes of being “on the road.”
Next Up Downtown
The work of seven up-and-coming performance companies—Hotel Savant, Temporary Distortion, New Paradise Laboratories, Knife, Inc., Ex.Pgirl, Witness Relocation, and Banana Bag & Bodice—explores intermediality transnationalism, and political affect. All emphasize the continued dominance of networked, spatialized storytelling
"Reconsidering "the American Style
This essay explores the contributions of black performers and black music in two landmark collaborations among playwright tennessee Williams, director Elia Kazan, and designer Jo Mielziner: the 1947 premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire , and the 1955 premiere of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . With his strong directorial hand, Kazan amplified the black presence in both plays and used both black actors and black music to navigate the realistic and express…
The Black Radical Tragic
June 01 2017 The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution. By Jeremy MatthewGlick. New York: New York University Press, 2016; 296 pp.; illustrations. $89.00 cloth, $27.00 paper, e-book available. Paige A. McGinley Paige A. McGinley Paige A. McGinley is Associate Professor of Performing Arts at Washington University …
Generational Schism, Fannie Lou Hamer, and the Future of Protest
A couple of days after the 2016 election, poet Treasure Shields Redmond responded to a prompt asking about “the future of protest” by channeling a figure from protests past. In so doing she challenged the prevailing models of the relationship between Black Lives Matter activists and their generational elders
Stolen Time
The calypso craze of the 1950s is so associated with a single megastar—Harry Belafonte—that it is not surprising that Shane Vogel's virtuosic Stolen Time opens with Belafonte's disavowal of a fad that was forever attempting to place him at its center. Vogel's book likewise stages a disappearing act for Belafonte, though his presence remains keenly felt. In doing so, Vogel allows lesser-known though no less significant performers to occupy center …
Rehearsing Revolutions
Reviewed by: Rehearsing Revolutions: The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism in the Early Twentieth Century by Mary McAvoy Paige A. McGinley REHEARSING REVOLUTIONS: THE LABOR DRAMA EXPERIMENT AND RADICAL ACTIVISM IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Mary McAvoy. Studies in Theatre History and Culture series. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019; pp. 266. For decades, a politically and pedagogically innovative theatrical form flourished…
Experimenting with a New Technique
In the 1940s, organizers in the struggle for Black freedom, eager to distinguish themselves from the pacifist movement, began to introduce “experiments” in desegregation into their activities. Inspired by Gandhi and his interpreters, these actionists (as they called themselves) discovered and implemented the principles and practices of direct action that would later be used on a broad scale. At the time, direct action and civil disobedience were …
On (Not) Waiting for Godot
This article traces the reinvention and circulation of existential thought and action through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the first half of the 1960s, especially in Mississippi. Here, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, and the founders of the Free Southern Theater, among others, immersed themselves in the existential questions of freedom and responsibility, pointing the way toward ethical action at a time when there was, as the cha…
Existentialisms
Two Black men hang out on the street corner. They trade jokes, tell stories, pass the time. From time to time they are interrupted: by floodlights that freeze them in their tracks, by a strange white man seemingly plucked from another time, and finally, by a menacing racist cop. In playwright Antoinette Nwandu’s hands, this Beckettian tale shows us, perhaps, that the racial absurd (Vogel 2022) is not solely an applied or adapted European phenomen…
Freedom Time
Freedom Time:New Directions in Civil Rights Movement Scholarship Paige A. McGinley (bio) Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation. By Julius B. Fleming Jr. New York: New York University Press, 2022. 322 pages. $89.00 (cloth). $29.00 (paper). Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson. By Shana L. Redmond. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 208 pages. $94.95 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). Liv…
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