Popis: |
Discussions of African-American performance in the Hollywood musical have largely circulated around ideas of exclusion, positioning black performers as either displaced within the black cast musical or marginalized as featured performers in mainstream musicals governed by white stars and white narratives. While Richard Dyer contends that narrative exclusion eliminates from the black experience the utopian possibility of “bursting from the confines of life,” Sean Griffin pointedly notes that “... |