Black Performance Theory
by DeFrantz, Thomas Gonzalez, Anita
Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers-many of whom are performers-demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in A…
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- Full title :Black Performance Theory / Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez, editors ; foreword by D. Soyini Madison.
Summary
Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers-many of whom are performers-demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embra.
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- Publication Date:2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 279 pages :) : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780822377016, 0822377012
- oclc:on1139357245
- LC Classification:PN1590.B53
- Dewey Decimal:791.089/96073
Table of Contents
From "negro expression" to "black performance" / Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez -- Transporting black -- Navigations: diasporic transports and landings / Anita Gonzalez -- Diasporic spidering: constructing contemporary black identities / Nadine George-Graves -- Twenty-first-century post-humans: the rise of the See-J / Hershini Bhana Young -- Hip work: undoing the tragic mulata / Melissa Blanco Borelli -- Black-en-scene -- Black-authored lynching drama's challenge to theater history / Koritha Mitchell -- Reading "spirit" and the dancing body in the choreography of Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson Carl Paris -- Uncovered: a pageant of hip hop masters / Rickerby Hinds -- Black imaginary -- Black movements: flying africans in spaceships / Soyica Diggs Colbert -- Post-logical notes on self-election / Wendy S. Walters -- Cityscaped: ethnospheres / Anna B. Scott -- Hi-fidelity black -- "Rip it up": excess and ecstasy in Little Richard's sound / Tavia Nyong'o -- Don't stop 'til you get enough: presence, spectacle, and good feeling in Michael Jackson's This is it / Jason king -- Afro-sonic feminist praxis: Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy in high fidelity / Daphne A. Brooks -- Hip-…
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