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​Antifascist Stage
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The ANTIFASCIST STAGE shows workers’ commitment to generating their non-institutionalized organization through fundraising cultural events in the United States. In their cultural fundraisers, antifascist plays were performed, artists danced and sang, speeches were delivered, dinners were served, dance orchestras played, lotteries were held, and funds were subsequently collected. Antifascist stage productions built on a tradition of the popular performance models of the 1920s and 1930s (vaudeville, comedies, light operas); marked by parodic self-representation, the popular dramaturgical genres used comedy and farce to ridicule fascist narratives. ​ As the announcements for cultural fundraisers demonstrate, women’s contributions as organizers and performers energized this ongoing antifascist fight.
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The ANTIFASCIST STAGE shows workers’ commitment to generating their own non-institutionalized and transnational modes of collective organization through fundraising events in the United States. In their cultural fundraisers, antifascist plays were performed, artists danced and sang, speeches were delivered, dinners were served, dance orchestras played, lotteries were held, and funds subsequently collected. Antifascist stage productions built on a tradition of the popular performance models of the 1920s and 1930s (vaudeville, comedies, light operas); marked by parodic self-representation, the popular dramaturgical genres used comedy and farce to ridicule fascist narratives. ​ As the announcements for cultural fundraisers demonstrate, women’s contributions as organizers and performers energized this ongoing antifascist fight.
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Image: España Libre March 21, 1952.
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