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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

After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life
Artist/Author: Joshua Chambers-Letson | Reference: P3772 | ISBN: 978-1-4798-3277-4 | Type: Publication

Tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and sustain life in the face of subordination, exploitation, and annihilation.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

AIDS Assata Shakur Audre Lorde Civil Rights Movement colonialism communism community Danh Vō difference Eiko Félix González-Torres freedom government health heteronormativity history HIV human rights Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas LGBT marginalisation Martin Wong money Nao Bustamante Nina Simone Nona Faustine patriarchy politics race racism sexuality slavery Tseng Kwong Chi USA Vietnam War white supremacy

Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible
Artist/Author: Malik Gaines | Reference: P3460 | ISBN: 978-1479837038 | Type: Publication

Illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s.

alienation Ama Ata Aidoo ambivalence Bertolt Brecht black black power blackness Cockettes diaspora difference Efua Sutherland Europe excess film gender Germany Ghana Günther Kaufmann history identity identity politics intertexuality Josephine Baker Kwame Nkrumah Lorraine Hansberry Marxism multiplicity music Nina Simone performance politics race racism Rainer Werner Fassbinder sexuality slavery Sylvester theater transgression transnationalism USA Venice Biennale W.E.B. Du Bois West Africa

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