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A Sourcebook on African-American Performance

Author : Annemarie Bean
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134673930
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book A Sourcebook on African-American Performance written by Annemarie Bean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sourcebook on African-American Performance is the first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990s. As with all titles in the Worlds of Performance series, the Sourcebook consists of classic texts as well as newly commissioned pieces by notable scholars, writers and performers. It includes the plays 'Sally's Rape' by Robbie McCauley and 'The American Play' by Suzan-Lori Parks, and comes complete with a substantial, historical introduction by Annemarie Bean. Articles, essays, manifestos and interviews included cover topics such as: * theatre on the professional, revolutionary and college stages * concert dance * community activism * step shows * performance art. Contributors include Annemarie Bean, Ed Bullins, Barbara Lewis, John O'Neal, Glenda Dickersun, James V. Hatch, Warren Budine Jr. and Eugene Nesmith.

A Source Book of African-American Performance

Author : Anne Marie Bean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781422350362
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book A Source Book of African-American Performance written by Anne Marie Bean and published by . This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Sourcebook on African-American Performance

Author : Annemarie Bean
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134673922
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book A Sourcebook on African-American Performance written by Annemarie Bean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sourcebook on African-American Performance is the first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990s. As with all titles in the Worlds of Performance series, the Sourcebook consists of classic texts as well as newly commissioned pieces by notable scholars, writers and performers. It includes the plays 'Sally's Rape' by Robbie McCauley and 'The American Play' by Suzan-Lori Parks, and comes complete with a substantial, historical introduction by Annemarie Bean. Articles, essays, manifestos and interviews included cover topics such as: * theatre on the professional, revolutionary and college stages * concert dance * community activism * step shows * performance art. Contributors include Annemarie Bean, Ed Bullins, Barbara Lewis, John O'Neal, Glenda Dickersun, James V. Hatch, Warren Budine Jr. and Eugene Nesmith.

Blacks in Blackface

Author : Henry T. Sampson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810883511
Total Pages : 1573 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Blacks in Blackface written by Henry T. Sampson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 1573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1980, Blacks in Blackface was the first and most extensive book up to that time to deal exclusively with every aspect of all-Black musical comedies performed on the stage between 1910 and 1940. Sampson provides an unprecedented wealth of information on legitimate musical comedies, including show synopses, casts, songs, and production credits. Sampson also recounts the struggles of Black performers and producers to overcome the racial prejudice of white show owners, music publishers, and theatre managers and booking agents to achieve adequate financial compensation for their talents and managerial expertise. A comprehensive volume that covers all aspects of Black musical shows performed in theatres, nightclubs, circuses, and medicine shows, this edition of Blacks in Blackface can be used as a reference for serious scholars and researchers of Black show business in the United States before 1940.

African-American Performance and Theater History

Author : Harry Justin Elam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195127256
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book African-American Performance and Theater History written by Harry Justin Elam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America.

1,999 Facts About Blacks

Author : Raymond M. Corbin
Publisher : Madison Books
ISBN 13 : 1461662710
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book 1,999 Facts About Blacks written by Raymond M. Corbin and published by Madison Books. This book was released on 1996-11-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black History Month is a year-round affair! In this second edition of 1,999 Facts about Blacks, approximately one third of these facts are achievements since 1986 when the first edition was published. Also included is a bibliography for those who want to pursue African-American history beyond the question-and-answer phase.

Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252044588
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 written by and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American Life, and African American Music in Global Perspective. In this collection, a group of predominately Black scholars explores a variety of topics with works that pioneered new methodologies and modes of inquiry for hearing and studying Black music. These extracts and articles examine the World War II jazz scene; look at female artists like gospel star Shirley Caesar and jazz musician-arranger Melba Liston; illuminate the South Bronx milieu that folded many forms of black expressive culture into rap; and explain Hamilton's massive success as part of the "tanning" of American culture that began when Black music entered the mainstream. Part sourcebook and part survey of historic music scholarship, Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 collects groundbreaking work that redefines our view of Black music and its place in American music history. Contributors: Nelson George, Wayne Everett Goins, Claudrena N. Harold, Eileen M. Hayes, Loren Kajikawa, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tammy L. Kernodle, Cheryl L. Keyes, Gwendolyn Pough, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Mark Tucker, and Sherrie Tucker

1,999 Facts About Blacks

Author : R. Corbin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781417824717
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book 1,999 Facts About Blacks written by R. Corbin and published by . This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Whiting Up

Author : Marvin McAllister
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807869066
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Whiting Up written by Marvin McAllister and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video "Dangerous." In this sweeping work, Marvin McAllister explores the enduring tradition of "whiting up," in which African American actors, comics, musicians, and even everyday people have studied and assumed white racial identities. Not to be confused with racial "passing" or derogatory notions of "acting white," whiting up is a deliberate performance strategy designed to challenge America's racial and political hierarchies by transferring supposed markers of whiteness to black bodies--creating unexpected intercultural alliances even as it sharply critiques racial stereotypes. Along with conventional theater, McAllister considers a variety of other live performance modes, including weekly promenading rituals, antebellum cakewalks, solo performance, and standup comedy. For over three centuries, whiting up as allowed African American artists to appropriate white cultural production, fashion new black identities through these "white" forms, and advance our collective ability to locate ourselves in others.

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance

Author : Kathy A. Perkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351751433
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance written by Kathy A. Perkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside chapters from scholars are contributions from theatre makers, including producers, theatre managers, choreographers, directors, designers, and critics. This ambitious Companion includes: A "Timeline of African American theatre and performance." Part I "Seeing ourselves onstage" explores the important experience of Black theatrical self-representation. Analyses of diverse topics including historical dramas, Broadway musicals, and experimental theatre allow readers to discover expansive articulations of Blackness. Part II "Institution building" highlights institutions that have nurtured Black people both on stage and behind the scenes. Topics include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), festivals, and black actor training. Part III "Theatre and social change" surveys key moments when Black people harnessed the power of theatre to affirm community realities and posit new representations for themselves and the nation as a whole. Topics include Du Bois and African Muslims, women of the Black Arts Movement, Afro-Latinx theatre, youth theatre, and operatic sustenance for an Afro future. Part IV "Expanding the traditional stage" examines Black performance traditions that privilege Black worldviews, sense-making, rituals, and innovation in everyday life. This section explores performances that prefer the space of the kitchen, classroom, club, or field. This book engages a wide audience of scholars, students, and theatre practitioners with its unprecedented breadth. More than anything, these invaluable insights not only offer a window onto the processes of producing work, but also the labour and economic issues that have shaped and enabled African American theatre. Chapter 20 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Blacks in Black and White

Author : Henry T. Sampson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Blacks in Black and White written by Henry T. Sampson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1977 to acclaim as a pioneering work, this has remained the first and only book to detail all aspects of a unique era in the history of motion pictures--the only time in the U.S. when films featuring an all-Black cast, produced and directed by Blacks, were shown primarily to Black audiences, in theatres many of which were owned and managed by Blacks. Sampson traces the history of the Black film industry from its beginnings around 1910 to its demise in 1950, chronicling the activities of pioneer Black filmmakers and performers who have been virtually ignored by film historians. Significantly more information on Oscar Micheaux and other Black producers of the period and descriptions of many more Black films are included in the second edition. A new chapter discusses the first black images in American film as portrayed by Whites in blackface. The list of film titles from both the sound and the silent periods, including members of the cast, has been greatly expanded. With an extensive list of Black musical "soundies;" full index; and many new and rare photographs.

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature

Author : Angelyn Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521858887
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature written by Angelyn Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.

Performing Blackness

Author : Kimberley W. Benston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135078319
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Performing Blackness written by Kimberley W. Benston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Let's Get it on

Author : Catherine Ugwu
Publisher : Institute of Contemporary Art
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let's Get it on written by Catherine Ugwu and published by Institute of Contemporary Art. This book was released on 1995 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Produced by ICA Live Arts, a contemporary arts institute in Boston, 'Let's Get It On' features the art of Reza Abdoh, Elia Arce, Chila Kumari Burman, Ronald Fraser-Monro and more as well as essays by Cosco Fusco and bell hooks and others. The collection evaluates various forms of African-American performance art from the circle of the dance under slavery to Carnival and its masquerade of identities, and the validity of the art form in a contemporary society"--Amazon.com.

Restaging the Sixties

Author : James Martin Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472069545
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book Restaging the Sixties written by James Martin Harding and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic exploration of eight radical theater collectives from the 1960s and 70s, and their influence on contemporary performance

Forgeries of Memory and Meaning

Author : Cedric J. Robinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469606755
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Forgeries of Memory and Meaning written by Cedric J. Robinson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans. Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the parallel growth of racial beliefs and capitalism, beginning with Shakespearean England and the development of international trade. He demonstrates how the needs of American commerce determined the construction of successive racial regimes that were publicized in the theater and in motion pictures, particularly through plantation and jungle films. In addition to providing new depth and complexity to the history of black representation, Robinson examines black resistance to these practices. Whereas D. W. Griffith appropriated black minstrelsy and romanticized a national myth of origins, Robinson argues that Oscar Micheaux transcended uplift films to create explicitly political critiques of the American national myth. Robinson's analysis marks a new way of approaching the intellectual, political, and media racism present in the beginnings of American narrative cinema.

Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance

Author : Brenda D. Gottschild
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313296847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance written by Brenda D. Gottschild and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been invisibilized by the pervasive force of racism. This book provides evidence to correct and balance the record, investigating the Africanist presence as a conditioning factor in shaping American performance, onstage and in everyday life. She examines the Africanist presence in American dance forms particularly in George Balanchine's Americanized style of ballet, (post)modern dance, and blackface minstrelsy. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power.