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Historical Dictionary of African American Theater - Anthony Hill; Douglas E. Barnett

Call Number: REF PN 2270 A35 H 53 1009

ISBN: 9780810855342

Publication Date: 2008-12-04

This work is useful for brief articles about playwrights, actors and plays.

The Oxford Companion to African American Literature - William L. Andrews (Editor); Frances Smith Foster (Editor); Trudier Harris-Lopez (Editor); Henry Louis Gates (Foreword by)

Call Number: REF 153 N5 o96 1997

ISBN: 0195065107

Publication Date: 1997

Brief entries on African-American playwrights, plays and other aspects of Black Theater.

Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: literary biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1945 - Lorraine E. Roses; Ruth E. Randolph

Call Number: REF PS 153 N5 R65 1990

Publication Date: 1990

This work provides short biographical sketches of women involved with the Harlem Renaissance as well lists of their works and works about them.

The Ghost Walks: A Chronological history of blacks in show business, 1865-1910 - Henry T. Sampson

Call Number: REF PN 2270 A35 S25 1988

Publication Date: 1988

This book provides am excellent overview of African Americans in the theater by year. It has many pictures and references to primary sources.

The Library of Congress's Perfroming Arts Encyclopedia

Call Number: online

The Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE) is a guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress--and it is huge. It strengths appear to be in African American band music---There is also a section called.."Its Showtime-sheet music from the past 300 years which might be helpful.

Vaudeville, Old and New - Frank Cullen; Florence Hackman; Donald P. McNeilly

Call Number: REF PN 1968 U5 C85 2007

ISBN: 0415938538

Publication Date: 2006-10-16

Use the index in Volume 2 to find references to African-Americans who performed in Vaudeville.

American Decades

Call Number: Reference E169.12 .A419

History in a nutshell! This works analyzes 20th century U.S. by decade then by topics i.e. world events, arts, fashion, lifestyle sports, politics, etc. It is useful for finding out what was happening in a given year.

Living Theater - Edwin Wilson; Alvin Goldfarb

Call Number: PN 2101

ISBN: 007038469x

Publication Date: 1999-07-21

Theater Histories are useful for brief production histories, as well what else is going on the theater world at the time of the play you are researching. Also use the call number PN 2101 other theater histories--not histries are created equal!

Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895 - Paul Finkelman (Editor)

Call Number: REF E185 .E545 2006

ISBN: 0195167775

Publication Date: 2006-04-06

Very useful for background information on topics in African American History i.e. Jim Crow, freedmen and famous African Americans.

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