The scene of Harlem cabaret : race, sexuality, performance /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vogel, Shane
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century. New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century. Harlem Renaissance. African American entertainers > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century. Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century. Performing arts > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century. Homosexuality > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century. African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century. African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century. United States > Race relations > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Against uplift : performance, literature, and the queer Harlem Renaissance
American cabaret performance and the production of intimacy
The scene of Harlem cabaret : 1926 and after
Closing time : Langston Hughes and the queer poetics of Harlem nightlife
Rereading Du Bois reading McKay : uplift sociology and the problem of amusement
Lena Horne's impersona
Afterword: Irrealizing the queer Harlem Renaissance.