Performing Blackness: Enactments Of African-american Modernism
by Kimberly W. Benston /
2000 / English / PDF
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Performing Blackness
Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation
of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the
1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism,
Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's
role in realising African-American aspirations for autonomy and
authority.
offers a challenging interpretation
of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the
1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism,
Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's
role in realising African-American aspirations for autonomy and
authority.
Artists covered include:
Artists covered include:
* John Coltrane
* John Coltrane
* Ntozake Shange
* Ntozake Shange
* Ed Bullins
* Ed Bullins
* Amiri Baraka
* Amiri Baraka
* Adrienne Kennedy
* Adrienne Kennedy
* Michael Harper.
* Michael Harper.Performing Blackness
Performing Blackness is an exciting contribution to the
ongoing debate about the vitality and importance of black culture.
is an exciting contribution to the
ongoing debate about the vitality and importance of black culture.
