Readying the Revolution - 9780472077182

Readying the RevolutionAfrican American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement\nAuthor(s): Jonathan Shandell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472077182, 978-0472077182\nSynopsis\nStarting in 1966, African American activist Stokely Carmichael and other political leaders adopted the phrase \""Black Power!\"" The slogan captured a militant, revolutionary spirit that was already emerging in the work of playwrights, poets, musicians, and visual artists throughout the Black Arts movement of the mid-1960s. But the story of those theater artists and performers whose work helped bring about the Black Arts revolution has not fully been told. Readying the Revolution: African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement explores the dynamic era of Black culture between the end of World War II and the start of the Black Arts M.