Chapter 20 Being black on stage and screen

Chapter 20 Being black on stage and screen
Monica White Ndounou, Monica W ...
Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today


Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
December 12, 2022 | History

Chapter 20 Being black on stage and screen

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—from the 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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Taylor & Francis

Buy this book

Book Details


Edition Notes

Open Access Unrestricted online access

Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

English

Classifications

Library of Congress
PN2270.A35R68 2019, PN2270.A35

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31373971M
ISBN 13
9781315191225, 9781138726710
OCLC/WorldCat
1078565869

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
December 12, 2022 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
September 20, 2021 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
November 17, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
November 17, 2020 Created by MARC Bot import new book