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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

Critical Theory and Performance
Editor: Janelle G. Reinelt, Joseph R. Roach | Reference: P3952 | ISBN: 978472064588 | Type: Publication

Presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres.  Revised and Enlarged Edition

AIDS Bertolt Brecht body cabaret Cantonese opera circus critical race theory cyberspace dance Dwight Conquergood gender studies historiography history HIV Jazz Jill Dolan labour LGBT Molier Molière money opera Peggy Phelan performance analysis performance art play politics postcolonial studies psychoanalysis Richard Schechner ritual semiotics sexuality stand-up street theatre William Shakespeare

Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices
Editor: Adesola Akinleye | Reference: P3775 | ISBN: 978-3-319-70313-8 | Type: Publication

Bringing together the voices of dance-artists, scholars, teachers and choreographers, the book looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet, providing valuable insights into dance theory, performance, pedagogy, identity and culture. 

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

A'Keitha Carey African diaspora Anita Gonzalez Beverley Glean blackness body British Britishness Caribfunk Chikukwango Cuxima-Zwa Christy Adair criticism decolonising diaspora ethics Ethiopia feminism gender H Patten Helen Kindred history Hopal Romans Jamaica Jane Carr Jazz Kokuma Lion King Namron politics race racism Ramsay Burt Ras Mikey Courtney representation Rosie Lehan Sandie Bourne Sandra Golding Sarahleigh Castelyn Thea Barnes Tia-Monique Uzor UK youth dance

Jammy Dodgers, Back on Track, Amazing Kate
Artist/Author: Frauke Requardt | Reference: D1931 | Type: DVD

Full length video recordings and excerpts of the artist’s works.

choreography dance entertainment Frauke Requardt humour identity invention Jazz surrealism

London: world city for the 21st century
Reference: P1724 | ISBN: 0-7287-1008-0 | Type: Publication

Reflections on themes discussed at the 2003 conference of Arts Council England

Blast Theory civil service cultural policy development diversity Francesca Beard Jazz Jude Kelly London performance performance poetry Soweto Kinch

In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
Artist/Author: Fred Moten | Reference: P1549 | Type: Publication
Albert Ayler Amiri Baraka Black Aesthetic Burton Greene Charles Mingus Eric Dolphy Fred Moten homoeroticism Jazz John Coltrane literature music Ornette Coleman

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