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Shortlist LIVE! Issue 1
Editor: Heidi Backström | Reference: P4064 | ISBN: 9871916424371 | Type: Publication

Publication on a new entity of events as part of ANTI Festival, where the artists shortlisted for the International Prize of Live Art present their work.

In English and Finnish.

audience black Broderick Chow capital choreography comedy Cuqui Jerez Dana Mitchel femme Finland hip-hop improvisation James Oscar Joshua Chambers-Letson KeijuaThomas Kuopio labour Mammalian Diving Reflex money participation performance Quim Pujol race Riikka Stewen sculpture

Black Performance Theory
Editor: Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez | Reference: P4026 | ISBN: 978-0-8223-5616-5 | Type: Publication

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.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
 

aesthetics Africa African American agency Anita Gonzalez Anna B. Scott authenticity Barack Obama black blackness body capitalism Carl Paris choreography criticism D. Soyini Madison dance Daphne A. Brooks diaspora economy embodiment ethnicity Hershini Bhana Young hip-hop history identity Jason King Jazz Koritha Mitchell labour live art lynching media Melissa Blanco Borelli Mexico Michael Jackson minstrel money music Nadine George-Graves Nina Simone performance politics queer race racism Reggie Wilson Rickerby Hinds Ronald K. Brown slavery Soyica Diggs Colbert Tavia Nyong'o theatre theory Thomas F. DeFrantz UK USA voice Wendy S. Walters

The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds
Artist/Author: John Higgs | Reference: P3451 | ISBN: 978-1780226552 | Type: Publication

They were the bestselling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial success and creative freedom. Then they deleted their records, erased themselves from musical history and burnt their last million pounds in a boathouse on the Isle of Jura. And they couldn't say why. Wildly unauthorised and unlike any other music biography, THE KLF is a trawl through chaos on the trail of a beautiful, accidental mythology.

activism Alan Moore alchemy Bill Drummond Carl Jung chaos Dada Discordianism Doctor Who hip-hop house Jimmy Cauty Ken Campbell King Boy D Magic music politics punk rave Robert Anton Wilson Rockman Rock Situationism techno The JAMs The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu The Timelords

Real Black: Adventures In Racial Sincerity
Artist/Author: John L. Jackson Jr. | Reference: P3286 | ISBN: 978-0226390024 | Type: Publication

Drawing on more than ten years of ethnographic research in and around New York City, the book offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that address how race is negotiated in today’s world-including tales of book-vending numerologists, urban conspiracy theorists, corrupt police officers, mixed-race neo-Nazis, and gospel choirs forbidden to catch the Holy Ghost.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

African American Anthroman anthropology authenticity black black American Black Jewish body city emceeing ethnography gentrification Harlem hip-hop human rights identity intersubjectivity Mos Def naming New York politics race racism slavery sociology universal declaration of human rights white Worldwide Truthful Understanding

Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983
Artist/Author: Tim Lawrence | Reference: P3252 | ISBN: 978-0822362029 | Type: Publication

Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification.

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Dis-Orienting Rhythms – The Politics of Asian Dance Music
Editor: Sanjay Sharma, John Hutnyk, Ashwani Sharma | Reference: P2014 | ISBN: 9781856494700 | Type: Publication

This book writes explores the South Asian music scene within the study of race and identity uncovering the crucial role its expressions – from Hip-hop, Qawwali and Bhangra through Soul, Indie and Jungle – have played in a new urban cultural politics.

Asia Bhangra cultural politics dance diaspora hip-hop identity Indie jungle multiculturalism music Qawwali race urban culture

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