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TWO NOTES ON AUGUST WILSON: THE SONGS OF A MARKED MAN

TWO NOTES ON AUGUST WILSON: THE SONGS OF A MARKED MAN MARGARET E . GLOVER a coca-cola.”Bynum to Jeremy in Seth Holly’s boarding house. “You ought to take your guitar and go down to Seefus . . . That’s where the music a t . . . The people down there making music and enjoying themselves. Some things is worth taking the chance going to jail about.” And Wining Boy at one of the stops along his road. “You look up one day and you hate the whiskey, you hate the women, and you hate the piano. But that’s all you got. You can’t do nothing else. So all you know is how to play that piano. Now, who am I? Am I me . . . or am I the piano player’? Sometimes it seem like the only thing to do is shoot the piano player ’cause he’s the cause of all the trouble I’m having.” This is the dilemma. His music gave the black man a place in the white man’sworld, but at the cost of losing his right to that music and the part of himself he put in it. Ma Rainey knows that once Sturdyvant and Irvin have gotten what they want from her music, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Theater Duke University Press

TWO NOTES ON AUGUST WILSON: THE SONGS OF A MARKED MAN

Glover, Margaret E.
Theater , Volume 19 (3) – Jun 1, 1988
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1988 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre
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0161-0775
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1527-196X
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10.1215/01610775-19-3-69
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MARGARET E . GLOVER a coca-cola.”Bynum to Jeremy in Seth Holly’s boarding house. “You ought to take your guitar and go down to Seefus . . . That’s where the music a t . . . The people down there making music and enjoying themselves. Some things is worth taking the chance going to jail about.” And Wining Boy at one of the stops along his road. “You look up one day and you hate the whiskey, you hate the women, and you hate the piano. But that’s all you got. You can’t do nothing else. So all you know is how to play that piano. Now, who am I? Am I me . . . or am I the piano player’? Sometimes it seem like the only thing to do is shoot the piano player ’cause he’s the cause of all the trouble I’m having.” This is the dilemma. His music gave the black man a place in the white man’sworld, but at the cost of losing his right to that music and the part of himself he put in it. Ma Rainey knows that once Sturdyvant and Irvin have gotten what they want from her music,

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Theater – Duke University Press

Published: Jun 1, 1988

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