Black performance theory
Auteurs : DeFrantz, Thomas F. (Direction) ; Gonzalez, Anita (Direction)
Lieu de publication : Durham
Éditeur : Duke University Press
Date de publication : 2014
ISBN : 978-0-8223-5616-5
Langue : Anglais
Description : ix, 279 pages : ill. ; 24 cm
Notes : Bibliogr. : p. 243-262. Index.
Sujets :
Artistes de cirque afro-américains
Arts du spectacle - États-Unis
Théâtre - États-Unis
Danse - États-Unis
Hip-hop (Danse)
Représentation du corps sur scène
Dépouillement du document :
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.
Résumé :
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 embrace the music and dance. They examine the work of contemporary choreographers Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson, the ways that African American playwrights translated the theatricality of lynching to the stage, the ecstatic music of Little Richard, and Michael Jackson's performance in the documentary This Is It. The collection includes several essays that exemplify the performative capacity of writing, as well as discussion of a project that re-creates seminal hip-hop album covers through tableaux vivants. Whether deliberating on the tragic mulatta, the trickster figure Anansi, or the sonic futurism of Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy, the essays in this collection signal the vast untapped critical and creative resources of black performance theory. [editor summary]
Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque
Localisation : Bibliothèque
Cote : 792.089 D316b 2014