Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts - 9781469676265

Music, Muscle, and Masterful ArtsBlack and Indigenous Performers of the Circus Age\nAuthor(s): Sakina M. Hughes\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469676265, 978-1469676265\nSynopsis\nBefore the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurssometimes called Black Bohemiansseized their limited freedoms and gained both fame and fortune with their work in a white-dominated [url] Black performers plied their trade in circuses, blues tents, and Wild West Shows with Native [url] era's traveling entertainments often promoted the \""\""disappearing Indian\""\"" myth and promoted racial hierarchies with Black and Native people at the bottom. But in a racial economy rooted in settler-colonialism and legacies of enslavement, Black and Indigenous performers found that otherness could be a job [url] as artists or manu.