The Red Mask of Sanity: Paul Robeson, HUAC, and the Sound of Cold War Performance

Author:

Perucci Tony1

Affiliation:

1. Tony Perucci is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches courses in performance, media, and cultural studies. His writings on the politics and aesthetics of performance, power, and activism have appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly as well as in Violence Performed, edited by Patrick Anderson and Jisha Menon (Palgrave, 2009), Performing Adaptations, edited by Michelle MacArthur, Lydia Wilkinson, and Keren Zaiontz (Cambridge...

Abstract

In 1949, after Paul Robeson—athlete, actor, singer, and anti-racist Leftist—stated that it would be “unthinkable” for blacks to fight a war against the Soviet Union, he was threatened by mobs, deprived of his US passport, denied work, hounded by the FBI, and made to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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