Black performance theory - Durham and London : Duke University Press , 2014 . - ix, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index.

From "negro expression" to "black performance" / Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez -- Transporting black -- Navigations: diasporic transports and landings / Anita Gonzalez -- Diasporic spidering: constructing contemporary black identities / Nadine George-Graves -- Twenty-first-century post-humans: the rise of the See-J / Hershini Bhana Young -- Hip work: undoing the tragic mulata / Melissa Blanco Borelli -- Black-en-scène -- Black-authored lynching drama's challenge to theater history / Koritha Mitchell -- Reading "spirit" and the dancing body in the choreography of Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson Carl Paris -- Uncovered: a pageant of hip hop masters / Rickerby Hinds -- Black imaginary -- Black movements: flying africans in spaceships / Soyica Diggs Colbert -- Post-logical notes on self-election / Wendy S. Walters -- Cityscaped: ethnospheres / Anna B. Scott -- Hi-fidelity black -- "Rip it up": excess and ecstasy in Little Richard's sound / Tavia Nyong'o -- Don't stop 'til you get enough: presence, spectacle, and good feeling in Michael Jackson's This is it / Jason king -- Afro-sonic feminist praxis: Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy in high fidelity / Daphne A. Brooks -- Hip-hop habitus v.2.0 / Thomas F. DeFrantz.

9780822356073 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822356165 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2013045755


Blacks in the performing arts
African Americans in the performing arts--performance studies--african american studies

PN1590.B53 / B53 2014

791.089

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