Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American ModernismRoutledge, 2013 M04 15 - 404 páginas Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's role in realising African-American aspirations for autonomy and authority. Artists covered include: * John Coltrane * Ntozake Shange * Ed Bullins * Amiri Baraka * Adrienne Kennedy * Michael Harper. Performing Blackness is an exciting contribution to the ongoing debate about the vitality and importance of black culture. |
Contenido
Will the circle be unbroken? Drama and the quest for communality | |
Blow into the freezing night Expressive agency in Coltrane and | |
Poem | |
Find the self then kill it Scripts and scores of selfenactment | |
Rehearsing blackness Spectre and spectacle in the theatrical prefaces | |
I was myself within the circle Vernacular and critical paradigms | |
Recalling blackness Recollection and response in contemporary black | |
representing blackness | |
sermon transcripts | |
Notes | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism Kimberley W. Benston Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism Kimberly W. Benston Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism Kimberly W. Benston Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adrienne Kennedy aesthetic African African-American American Amiri Baraka articulation assertion audience becomes Black Arts Movement Black Music black theater Bullins Bullins's collective colored girls Coltrane Poem Coltrane's communal conceptual consciousness contemporary critical critique cultural dance desire dialectic discourse displacement Ed Bullins Elvin Jones enactment energy Euro-American experience figure gesture gretsch hear historical Hurston identity politics ideological idioms imagination improvisation jazz John Coltrane Kennedy's language Larry Neal LeRoi Jones love supreme Madhubuti meaning Michael Harper mimesis mimetic modal mode modern black drama modernist narrative Neal Owl Answers performance play play's poem's poet poetic poetry potential present quest radical reading relation representation resistance Revolutionary Theatre rhythm ritual scene scream sechita seeks sense sermon Shange Shange's signifying Slave social song Sonia Sanchez sound space spiritual structure struggle subversive suggests temporal textual theatrical thematic theory tradition Trane transformation University Press vernacular vision voice writing York