Event overview
DAVID LINTON: Dover Street to Dixie. Race and Representation in 1920s London West End Revue Performance
West End revue performance emerged as a multidisciplinary aesthetic, part of a wide and diverse theatrical landscape of the 1920s, which sought to identify itself with a new spirit and the changing conditions of modernity. Appealing to an aspiring middle class and an artistic intelligentsia, the revue ‘Dover Street to Dixie’ (1923) exemplified a cultural-wide fascination with African-American and Oriental forms of this period and exposed complex gradations of exchange and interaction between performer and audience. This paper looks at revue’s utilisation and negotiation of black culture and its dialectical relationship as a synonym for expressions of identity. Experimenting with narrative and expressions of speech, movement, design and sound, Dover Street to Dixie, was a highly mediated version of cultural exchange, taking place across a number of controversial and potentially destabilising borders and checkpoints.
David Linton is a theatre practitioner and lecturer in Drama at Kingston University, London. His research interests include multidisciplinary participatory arts practice, popular theatre, Black performance and the formation and representation of national and cultural identities. He is also co-editor of Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin 1890 to 1939 (Cambridge University Press) published in September 2014.
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30 Oct 2014 | 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
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