1964, a year in African American performance history / David Krasner.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

©2025

ix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

"This book examines the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a single year, 1964. The book analyses specific events that occurred in 1964 as benchmarks of the Civil Right Movement making the case that 1964 was a watershed year. Each chapter considers individually politics, rhetoric, sports, dramatic literature, film, art, and music, breaking down the events and illustrating their importance to the social and political life in the United States in 1964. This study emphasizes 1964 as a nodal point in the history of the Civil Rights Movement, arguing that it was within this single year that the tide against racism and injustice turned markedly. This book will be of great interest to the scholars and students of civil rights, theatre & performance, art history and drama literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Krasner, David, 1952- 1964, a year in African American performance history Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024

English

September 23, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.