Eric M. Glover is an Assistant Professor Adjunct of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale, USA, where he is an expert on Black musical theater.

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• IntroductionChapter 1: An Anti-Racist Approach to the Study of Culture: The Black Musical as a Mode of Inquiry Chapter 2: 'Way over Jordan': Bondage and Freedom in Peculiar Sam (1879) and Choir Boy (2012)Chapter 3: 'Everything reminds me of you': Memory and Rememory as Narrative Techniques in Shuffle Along (1921) and Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016)Chapter 4: 'Home': Initiation Rites and Other 'Rites of Passage' in The Wiz (1975) and Passing Strange (2008)ConclusionReferences

Eric M. Glover is an Assistant Professor Adjunct of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale, USA, where he is an expert on Black musical theater.

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• IntroductionChapter 1: An Anti-Racist Approach to the Study of Culture: The Black Musical as a Mode of Inquiry Chapter 2: 'Way over Jordan': Bondage and Freedom in Peculiar Sam (1879) and Choir Boy (2012)Chapter 3: 'Everything reminds me of you': Memory and Rememory as Narrative Techniques in Shuffle Along (1921) and Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016)Chapter 4: 'Home': Initiation Rites and Other 'Rites of Passage' in The Wiz (1975) and Passing Strange (2008)ConclusionReferences

Eric M. Glover is an Assistant Professor Adjunct of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale, USA, where he is an expert on Black musical theater.

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• IntroductionChapter 1: An Anti-Racist Approach to the Study of Culture: The Black Musical as a Mode of Inquiry Chapter 2: 'Way over Jordan': Bondage and Freedom in Peculiar Sam (1879) and Choir Boy (2012)Chapter 3: 'Everything reminds me of you': Memory and Rememory as Narrative Techniques in Shuffle Along (1921) and Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016)Chapter 4: 'Home': Initiation Rites and Other 'Rites of Passage' in The Wiz (1975) and Passing Strange (2008)ConclusionReferences