Black performance theory / Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez, editors ; foreword by D. Soyini Madison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeFrantz, Thomas.

Gonzalez, Anita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people in the performing arts.

African Americans in the performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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

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-scène

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-hop habitus v.2.0 / Thomas F. DeFrantz.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822377016

0822377012

OCLC:

1139357245