EPISODE 6

Episode 6: The EPILOGUE

A glimpse into the resources and research that shaped Act 1.

Guests: Brittany Bradford, A.J. Muhammad, Dominique Rider, Arminda Thomas, Awoye Timpo

Produced by: CLASSIX and Theatre for a New Audience

Conceived and Written by: CLASSIX (Brittany Bradford, A.J. Muhammad, Dominique Rider, Arminda Thomas, Awoye Timpo)

Sound Design and Editing: Twi McCallum and Aubrey Dube

Associate Sound Engineer: German Martinez

Theme Song: Alphonso Horne

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abbott, Lynn, and Doug Seroff. 2009. Out of sight: the rise of African American popular music, 1889-1895. Jackson, Miss: University Press of Mississippi.

Abbott, Lynn, and Doug Seroff. 2012. Ragged but right: black traveling shows, 'coon songs', and the dark pathway to blues and jazz.

Bauman, Thomas. 2017. The Pekin: the rise and fall of Chicago's first black-owned theater. 

Cook, Will Marion. 1898. Music of the Negro. The Prospect.

Elam, Harry Justin, and David Krasner. 2001. African-American performance and theater history: a critical reader. Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press. 

Fletcher, Tom. 1954. One hundred years of the Negro in show business, the Tom Fletcher story. New York: Burdge.

Handy, W. C. 1981. Father of the blues. New York: DRG Records. 

Hartman, Saidiya V. 2010. Scenes of subjection: terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.

Hill, Errol, and James V. Hatch. 2005. A history of African American theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hill, Errol, and James V. Hatch. 2010. A history of African American theatre. 

Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth, and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. 1879. Peculiar Sam, or, The Underground Railroad. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press.

Johnson, James Weldon. 1991. Black Manhattan. 

Sampson, Henry T. 1977. Blacks in black and white: a source book on Black films. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.

Sampson, Henry T. 1980. Blacks in Blackface: a Source Book on Early Black Musical Shows.

Sampson, Henry T. 1988. The ghost walks: a chronological history of Blacks in show business, 1865-1910. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.

Sampson, Henry T. 1997. That's enough folks: Black images in animated cartoons, 1900-1960. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press.

Sampson, Henry T. 2005. Swingin' on the ether waves. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press.

Simond, Ike. 1974. Old Slack's reminiscence and pocket history of the colored profession from 1865 to 1891. Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press. 

Southern, Eileen. 2006. The music of Black Americans: a history. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Taylor, Yuval, and Jake Austen. 2012. Darkest America: black minstrelsy from slavery to hip-hop. New York: W.W. Norton.

Thompson, Ayanna. 2021. Blackface.

Trotter, James M. 2010. Music and some highly musical people. Nabu Press.