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1 online resource (451 pages) |
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Routledge Companions Ser |
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Routledge Companions Ser
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Black art now / by Nambi E. Kelley -- Introduction / Renee Alexander Craft, Thomas F. DeFrantz. Kathy A. Perkins, and Sandra L. Richards -- Highlights of African American theatre and performance -- Seeing ourselves onstage / edited and Introduced by Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Dudley, the smart set, and the beginning of the Black entertainment industry / Nadine George-Graves -- Black theatre history plays : remembering, recovering, re-envisioning / Sandra Mayo -- "Hung be the heavens with black" bodies : an analysis of the August 1822 riot at William Brown's Greenwich Village theater / Marvin McAllister -- Mulattoes, mistresses, and mammies : the phantom family in Langston Hughes's Mulatto / Alison Walls -- Interview with Woodie King, Jr., producer and director / Jameeka Holloway-Burrell -- Freedom forward : Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry circling Broadway in the 1950s / Barbara Lewis -- Navigating respectability in turn of the century New York City : intimate apparel by Nynn Nottage / Marta Effinger-Crichlow -- Earle Hyman : Scandinavian successes / Baron Kelly -- Pittsburgh piety : a century of symbolism / Pedro E. Alvarado -- Interview with Ron Simons, Broadway producer / Lisa B. Thompson -- Interview with Paul Tazewell, costume designer / Niiamar Felder -- Race on the opera stage / Twila L. Perry -- The Wiz and the African diaspora musical : rethinking the research questions in Black musical historiography / Sam O'Connell -- Bob Cole's "colored man's declaration of independence" : the case of Shoo Fly Regiment and George C. Wolfe's Shuffle Along / Paula Marie Seniors -- Shuffle Along and ethnic humor : a family story / Sandra Seaton -- Interview with Eva Yaa Asantewaa, dance critic / Thomas F. Defrantz -- Black female sexuality in the drama of Pearl Cleage / Beth Turner -- Coming-of-age and rituals of gender nonconformity in Leslie Lee's The first breeze of summer / Rhone Fraser -- Pomo afro homos : a revolutionary act / Tabitha Jamie Mary Chester -- Institution building : making a space of our own / edited and Introduced by Kathy A. Perkins -- Being black on stage and screen : black actor training before black power and the rise of Stanislavski's system / Monica White Ndounou -- Visionary African American women theatre artists : Anita Bush, Barbara Ann Teer and Ellen Stewart / Sandra Adell -- The birth of Queen Anne : re-discovering Anne Cooke at Spelman College / Leslye Joy Allen -- The Howard University Players : from respectability politics to Black representation / Denise J. Hart and Kathy A. Perkins -- An African American theatre program for the 21st century / Nefertiti Burton -- Interview with Karen Allen Baxter, managing director of Rites and Reason theatre / Jasmine Johnson -- The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. : one moment in time? / Susan Watson Turner -- Interview with Shirley Prendergast, lighting designer / Kathy A. Perkins -- Interview with Femi Sarah Heggie, stage manager / Kathy A. Perkins -- Weathering the winds of change : the sustainability of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company / Gregory S. Carr -- The National Black Theatre Festival and the "marvtastic" legacy of Larry Leon Hamlin / J.K. Curry -- The Black feminist theatre of Glenda Dickerson / Khalid Yaya Long -- Ernie McClintock's jazz acting : a theatre of common sense / Elizabeth M. Cizmar -- Black acting methods® : mapping the movement / Sharrell D. Luckett -- Financial fitness of Black theatres : roundtable of artistic directors / K. Zaheerah Sultan -- A reflection on the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff's The hip hop project : insight into the hip hop generation / Johnny Jones -- Interview with Ekundayo Bandele, founder and CEO of Hattiloo Theatre / Shondrika Moss-Bouldin.Theatre and social change / edited and Introduced by Sandra L. Richards -- W.E.B. Dubois, dramatist / Freda Scott Giles -- The third gift of the Negro : Muslim identity and Dubois' Star of Ethiopia / Cristal Chanelle Truscott -- Oh, ma dear! What's going on? : staging Angelina W. Grimke's Rachel in the wake of Black Lives Matter / Nicole Hodges Persley -- Leaning left : why theater artists in the 1930s were attracted to the Red movement / Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon -- Fighting fire with fire : violence and the Black liberation movement / Portia Owusu -- "When we gonna rise" : Free Southern Theater performances of Slave ship and Black power in Mississippi / Susan Stone-Lawrence -- From "poemplays" to ritualistic revivals : the experimental works of women dramatists of the Black arts movement / La Donna L. Forsgren -- Interview with Micki Grant / Kathy A. Perkins -- Keeping his gloves up : August Wilson and his critics / Sandra G. Shannon -- Interview with Edward Everett Haynes, Jr. / Kathy A. Perkins -- Afro-Latinx themes in theatre today / Daphnie Sicre -- To be young, performing, and black : situating youth in African American theatre and performance history / Astanewa Fulani Sunni-Ali -- Interview with Mama Kariamu Welsh / Amoaba Gooden -- Robert O'Hara's defamiliarizing dramaturgy / Isaiah Matthew Wooden -- Black plight in flight / Tezeru Teshome -- Creatively censoring African American drama while teaching in the Arab Gulf region / Phyllisa Smith Deroze -- Mike Wiley : a multi-faceted artist on a mission for social change / Sonny Kelly -- "Locked away but not defeated" : African American women performing resilience / Lori D. Barcliff Baptista -- A hundredfold : an experiential archive of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower, the opera / Alexis Pauline Gimbs -- Expanding the traditional stage / edited and Introduced by Renée Alexander Craft -- Many stories/one body : Black solo performance from vaudeville to spoken word / E. Patrick Johnson -- Standing up : Black feminist comedy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Katelyn Hale Wood -- My name Mudbone : what i learned about playwriting from Richard Pryor / Howard L. Craft -- Ntozake Shange and the choreopoem / Nicole M. Morris Johnson -- Interview with Donna Walker-Kuhne, audience development / Kathy A. Perkins -- Performed ethnography / D. Soyini Madison -- The United States of Lucia : three generations of Haitian-Americans reconfigure ancestry, home and host lands through storytelling / Mario Lamothe -- We were what no one else had / Rikki Byrd -- Interview with Pam Green, artist management and consulting / Melanie Greene -- Sidelong glances : Black divas in transit, 1945-1955 / Katherine Zien -- Black Indians of New Orleans : performing resistance and remembrance / Sascha Just -- Interview with Darryl Montana, Black Indian chief and master artisan / Loyce L. Arthur -- African performance in the Feast of St. Francis Xavier in 17th century Luanda, Angola / Margot Edwards -- Afro-futurism and the 2018 Wakanda diaspora carnival / Renée Alexander Craft -- A beginner's guide to implementing hip hop theatre in the classroom / Kashi Johnson -- Interview with Shirley Basfield Dunlap, educator and director / Eric Ruffin |
| Summary |
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-fromthe 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 |
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African American theater.
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African American theatrical producers and directors.
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African American dramatists.
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African American actors.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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Afrocentric.
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Black.
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Childress.
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Diaspora.
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Dubois.
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Gospel.
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Hansberry.
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Hip Hop.
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Krump.
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Lynching.
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Pulitzer.
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Universoul.
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Vaudeville.
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Voguing.
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African American actors
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African American dramatists
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African American theater
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African American theatrical producers and directors
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Richards, Sandra L
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Craft, Renee Alexander
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DeFrantz, Thomas F
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| ISBN |
9781351751445 |
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1351751441 |
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9781351751438 |
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1351751433 |
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9781351751421 |
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1351751425 |
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9781315191225 |
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1315191229 |
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