Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies :
Wilson, James F.,
Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies : performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / James F. Wilson. - Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2010] - 1 online resource. - Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance . - Triangulations. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best."
The gay and lesbian presence in black entertainment in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and Broadway stages.
English.
0472026968 9780472026968
American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.
American drama--History and criticism.--20th century
African Americans in the performing arts--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Theater--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life.--New York (State)--New York
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
PS338.N4
Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies : performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / James F. Wilson. - Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2010] - 1 online resource. - Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance . - Triangulations. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best."
The gay and lesbian presence in black entertainment in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and Broadway stages.
English.
0472026968 9780472026968
American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.
American drama--History and criticism.--20th century
African Americans in the performing arts--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Theater--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life.--New York (State)--New York
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
PS338.N4