DeFrantz / Gonzalez Black Performance Theory

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7701-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. In this collection of new essays, some of its pioneering thinkers demonstrate the breadth and depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

DeFrantz, Thomas F.

Gonzalez, Anita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / D. Soyini Madison

Acknowledgments

Introduction. From "Negro Experiment" to "Black Performance" / Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez

Part I: Transporting Black

1. Navigations: Diasporic Transports and Landings / Anita Gonzalez

2. Diasporic Spidering: Constructing Contemporary Black Identities / Nadine George-Graves

3. Twenty-First-Century Post-Humans: The Rose of the See-J / Hershini Bhana Young

4. Hip Work: Undoing the Tragic Mulata / Melissa Blanco Borelli

Part II: Black-En-Scène

5. Black-Authored Lynching Drama's Challenge to Theater History / Koritha Mitchell

6. Reading "Spirit" and the Dancing Body in the Choreography of Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson / Carl Paris

7. Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters / Rickerby Hinds

Part III: Black Imaginary

8. Black Movements: Flying Africans in Spaceships / Soyica Diggs Colbert

9. Post-logical Notes on Self-Election / Wendy S. Walters

10: Cityscaped: Ethnospheres / Anna B. Scott

Part IV: Hi-Fidelity Black

11. "Rip It Up": Excess and Ecstasy in Little Richard's Sound / Tavia Nyong'o

12. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough: Presence, Spectacle, and Good Feeling in Michael Jackson's This Is It / Jason King

13. Afro-sonic Feminist Praxis: Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy in High Fidelity / Daphne A. Brooks

14. Hip-Hop Habitus V.2.0 / Thomas F. DeFrantz

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas F. DeFrantz is Professor of African and African American Studies, Dance, and Theater Studies at Duke University. He is a dancer, a choreographer, and the author of Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture.

Anita Gonzalez is Professor of Theater at the University of Michigan. She is a director, a choreographer, and the author of Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality.