Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study
and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its
pioneering thinkers--many of whom are performers--demonstrates the
breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance
theory. 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. They examine the work of
contemporary choreographers Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson, the
ways that African American playwrights translated the theatricality
of lynching to the stage, the ecstatic music of Little Richard, and
Michael Jackson's performance in the documentary "This Is It." The
collection includes several essays that exemplify the performative
capacity of writing, as well as discussion of a project that
re-creates seminal hip-hop album covers through tableaux vivants.
Whether deliberating on the tragic mulatta, the trickster figure
Anansi, or the sonic futurism of Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy,
the essays in this collection signal the vast untapped critical and
creative resources of black performance theory.
Contributors. Melissa Blanco Borelli, Daphne A. Brooks, Soyica
Diggs Colbert, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Nadine George-Graves, Anita
Gonzalez, Rickerby Hinds, Jason King, D. Soyini Madison, Koritha
Mitchell, Tavia Nyong'o, Carl Paris, Anna B. Scott, Wendy S.
Walters, Hershini Bhana Young
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