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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
This book examines the relation between bodies and political
economies at micro and macro levels. It stands in the space between
ends and beginnings - some long-desired, such as the end of
capitalism and racism, and others long-dreaded, such as the climate
catastrophe - and reimagines what the world can be like instead. It
offers an original investigation into the relation between
performance, dance, and political economy, looking at the points
where politics, economics, ethics, and culture intersect. Arising
from live conversations and exchanges among the contributors, this
book is written in an interdisciplinary and dialogical manner by
leading scholars and artists in the fields of Performance Studies,
Dance, Political Theory, Economics, and Social Theory: Marc Arthur,
Melissa Blanco Borelli, Anita Gonzalez, Alexandrina Hemsley, Jamila
Johnson-Small, Elena Loizidou, Tavia Nyong'o, Katerina Paramana,
Nina Power, and Usva Seregina. Their critical and creative
examinations of the relation between bodies and political economy
offer insights for both imagining and materializing a world beyond
the present.
This book examines the relation between bodies and political
economies at micro and macro levels. It stands in the space between
ends and beginnings - some long-desired, such as the end of
capitalism and racism, and others long-dreaded, such as the climate
catastrophe - and reimagines what the world can be like instead. It
offers an original investigation into the relation between
performance, dance, and political economy, looking at the points
where politics, economics, ethics, and culture intersect. Arising
from live conversations and exchanges among the contributors, this
book is written in an interdisciplinary and dialogical manner by
leading scholars and artists in the fields of Performance Studies,
Dance, Political Theory, Economics, and Social Theory: Marc Arthur,
Melissa Blanco Borelli, Anita Gonzalez, Alexandrina Hemsley, Jamila
Johnson-Small, Elena Loizidou, Tavia Nyong'o, Katerina Paramana,
Nina Power, and Usva Seregina. Their critical and creative
examinations of the relation between bodies and political economy
offer insights for both imagining and materializing a world beyond
the present.
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
While Africans and their descendants have lived in Mexico for
centuries, many Afro-Mexicans do not consider themselves to be
either black or African. For almost a century, Mexico has promoted
an ideal of its citizens as having a combination of indigenous and
European ancestry. This obscures the presence of African, Asian,
and other populations that have contributed to the growth of the
nation. However, performance studies-of dance, music, and
theatrical events-reveal the influence of African people and their
cultural productions on Mexican society. In this work, Anita
Gonzalez articulates African ethnicity and artistry within the
broader panorama of Mexican culture by featuring dance events that
are performed either by Afro-Mexicans or by other ethnic Mexican
groups about Afro-Mexicans. She illustrates how dance reflects upon
social histories and relationships and documents how residents of
some sectors of Mexico construct their histories through
performance. Festival dances and, sometimes, professional staged
dances point to a continuing negotiation among Native American,
Spanish, African, and other ethnic identities within the evolving
nation of Mexico. These performances embody the mobile histories of
ethnic encounters because each dance includes a spectrum of
characters based upon local situations and historical memories.
"Looking for Asian America" shows real people engaged in the full
range of human activity. This is no small accomplishment for the
photographer or his subjects. For Asian Americans it is
extraordinary to be merely ordinary. To others, even if not to
themselves, Asian Americans appear to be contradictions of
identity--a Chinese-Yankee is a knockoff." --Frank H. Wu, from the
Foreword
In search of contemporary Asian America, celebrated photographer
Wing Young Huie--the only member of his family not born in
China--traveled with his wife Tara through nearly forty states to
explore and document the funny, touching, and sometimes strange
intersection of Asian American and American cultures. Looking for
Asian America" illustrates their rich and surprising journey across
the United States.
Through Huie's eyes, keenly aware of his own Midwestern roots and
perspective, we witness such images as a Vietnamese Elvis, Miss
Congeniality on her cell phone in San Francisco's Chinatown, a
Hmong street sign in rural North Carolina, a meditating Falun Gong
protestor in Washington, D.C., a bubble tea Valley Girl, and a
Chinese theme park in Orlando. Huie's camera captures ABCs
(American-born Chinese), FOAs (Fresh Off the Airplane), and a
self-described "redneck" Chinese restaurant owner near the
Okefenokee Swamp. Taken together the photographs reveal a complex
portrait of the U.S. cultural landscape, and their dignified
elegance invites a closer, deeper look.
Accompanied by the personal reflections of both Wing and Tara
Huie, the nearly one hundred spectacular photos tell a story that
both mirrors and contradicts stereotypes of Asian Americans,
ultimately questioning what itmeans to be ethnic and" American in
the twenty-first century.
Wing Young Huie has received widespread acclaim for his works,
including Lake Street USA, "documenting the cultural landscape of
his native Minnesota. He is a recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship
and two-time recipient of the McKnight Photography Fellowship. He
lives in Minneapolis.
Frank H. Wu is dean of Wayne State University Law School and the
author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White."
Anita Gonzalez teaches in the Master of Liberal Studies Program at
the University of Minnesota.
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