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University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry and provided a training ground for icons like Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Sammy Davis Jr., the Nicholas Brothers, Count Basie, and Butterbeans and Susie. Michelle R. Scott's institutional history details T.O.B.A.'s...
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Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND questions long-standing Eurocentric accounts of psychopathology and describes the way art and madness connect in Black life. La Marr Jurelle Bruce uses a method of radical compassion, or radical care, to read the actions of Black artists and creatives. He seeks to understand their motives not simply as individual pathology but as sociocultural event and effect which makes itself evident as Black radical creativity....
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