Hyers Sisters

Hyers Sisters

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occupation=Stage actressThe Hyers Sisters, Anna Madah and Emma Louise, were a African-American musical-comedy opera team. They formed the Hyers Sisters Comic Opera Co. in 1876, working with their father. The Sisters were also known as the Hyers Sisters of California. [Southern, pg. 221]

With Joseph Bradford and Pauline Hopkins, the Hyers Sisters produced the "first full-fledged musical plays... in which African Americans themselves comment on the plight of the slaves and the relief of Emancipation without the disguises of minstrel comedy", the first of which was "Out of Bondage" (also known as "Out of the Wilderness". [cite book|title=The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music|chapter=Musical Theater|last=Riis|first=Thomas L.|pages=614-623]

References

* cite book
last = Koskoff
first = Ellen (ed.)
id = ISBN 0-8240-4944-6
publisher = Garland Publishing
title = Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3: The United States and Canada
year = 2000
*

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