Working in the wings : new perspectives on theatre history and labor /
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Theater in the Americas.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the work of play in performance / Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth
- Driving race work: the UAW, Detroit, and Discrimination for everybody! / Chrystyna Dail
- Working together: the partnership of Les Waters and Annie Smart / Sara Freeman
- Advertising and the commercial spirit: cataloging nineteenth century scenic studio practices / Tom Robson
- Don't quit your day job: situating extratheatrical employment in the performance archive / Christine Woodworth
- Retooling the kitchen sink: representing domestic labor in American performance after 1963 / Dorothy Chansky
- Beaten, battered, and brawny: American variety entertainers and the working-class body / Max Shulman
- Hidden in plain sight: recovering the Federal Theatre Project's Caravan Theatre / Elizabeth A. Osborne
- African American waiters and cakewalk contests in Florida east coast resorts of the gilded age / Jerry Dickey
- Dion Boucicault's The octoroon and the work of republicanism / Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix
- Myth made manifest: labor, landscape, and the first Washington theatre / AnnMarie T. Saunders
- Labor, theatre, and the dream of the white city / Rosemarie K. Bank
- Blue-collar bard: recalling Shakespeare through the rhetoric of labor / Melissa Rynn Porterfield
- Songs of salaried warriors: copyright, intellectual property, and John Philip Sousa's The free lance / Tracey Elaine Chessum
- Working on a masterpiece: Rinde Eckert's And God created great whales / Jonathan Chambers
- Conclusion: waiting in the wings--work / Elizabeth A. Osborne.
