{"product_id":"black-performance-theory-9780822356073","title":"Black Performance Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. In this collection of new essays, some of its pioneering thinkers demonstrate the breadth and depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With this compelling volume, DeFrantz and Gonzalez provide less a settled corpus of methodologies applied to a canon of academically sanctioned performance genres than an articulation and elaboration of black corporealities, vocalities, and ‘sensibilities’ across a heterogeneous field of performative enunciations--’high’ and pop culture, geographically dispersed and diasporic. . . .  This promises to become a key work. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.” -- R. Remshardt * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is theory that dances. [...] \u003ci\u003eBlack Performance Theory\u003c\/i\u003e convenes 14 scholars and practitioners of Africana performance and bids them dance and groove across national, hemispheric, oceanic, planetary, disciplinary, epochal, formal, and methodological boundaries in pursuit of blackness in motion.\" -- La Marr Jurelle Bruce * TDR: The Drama Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword \/ D. Soyini Madison          Acknowledgments          Introduction. From \"Negro Experiment\" to \"Black Performance\" \/ Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez          Part I: Transporting Black          1. Navigations: Diasporic Transports and Landings \/ Anita Gonzalez          2. Diasporic Spidering: Constructing Contemporary Black Identities \/ Nadine George-Graves          3. Twenty-First-Century Post-Humans: The Rose of the See-J \/ Hershini Bhana Young          4. Hip Work: Undoing the Tragic Mulata \/ Melissa Blanco Borelli          Part II: Black-En-Scene          5. Black-Authored Lynching Drama's Challenge to Theater History \/ Koritha Mitchell          6. Reading \"Spirit\" and the Dancing Body in the Choreography of Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson \/ Carl Paris          7. Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters \/ Rickerby Hinds          Part III: Black Imaginary          8. Black Movements: Flying Africans in Spaceships \/ Soyica Diggs Colbert          9. Post-logical Notes on Self-Election \/ Wendy S. Walters          10: Cityscaped: Ethnospheres \/ Anna B. Scott          Part IV: Hi-Fidelity Black          11. \"Rip It Up\": Excess and Ecstasy in Little Richard's Sound \/ Tavia Nyong'o          12. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough: Presence, Spectacle, and Good Feeling in Michael Jackson's This Is It \/ Jason King          13. Afro-sonic Feminist Praxis: Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy in High Fidelity \/ Daphne A. Brooks          14. Hip-Hop Habitus V.2.0 \/ Thomas F. DeFrantz          Bibliography          Contributors          Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138192146775,"sku":"9780822356073","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822356073.jpg?v=1751918380","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-performance-theory-9780822356073","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}