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Cole, Catherine M.: |
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Note on Orthography xi
1
Introduction 1
2
Reading Blackface in West Africa
Wonders taken for signs 17
3
“The Rowdy Lot Created the Usual Disturbance”
Concerts and emergent publics, 1895-1927 53
4
“Ohia Ma Adwennwen,” or “Use Your Gumption!”
The pragmatics of performance, 1927-1945 78
5
Improvising Popular Traveling Theatre
The poetics of invention 104
6
“This Is Actually a Good Interpretation of Modern Civilization”
Staging the social imaginary, 1946-1966 133
Epilogue 159
Notes 163
Bibliography 173
Index 187