Black performance on the outskirts of the Left : a history of the impossible / Malik Gaines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaines, Malik, author.

Series:

Sexual cultures.

Sexual cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Political activity.

Black people.

Black people in the performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University, [2017]

Summary:

'Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left' illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavours of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s. These ideas paved the way for imaginative models for social transformation through performance. Using the notion of excess - its transgression, multiplicity, and ambivalence - Malik Gaines considers how performances of that era circulated a black political discourse capable of unsettling commonplace understandings of race, gender, and sexuality.

Contents:

Nina Simone's quadruple consciousness

Efua Sutherland, Ama Ata Aidoo, the state, and the stage

The radical ambivalence of Günther Kaufmann

The Cockettes, Sylvester, and performance as life

Afterword : a history of impossible progress.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-2260-4

OCLC:

1132226602