The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance
Craft, Renée Alexander
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2020 - 1 online resource
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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.
Open licence
eng
9781138726710 9781315191225
10.4324/9781315191225 doi
African American actors.
African American dramatists.
African American theater.
African American theatrical producers and directors.
Acteurs noirs américains.
Dramaturges noirs américains.
Producteurs et metteurs en scène de théâtre noirs américains.
Théâtre noir américain.
African American actors
African American dramatists
African American theater
African American theatrical producers and directors
Afrocentric.
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Black.
Childress.
Diaspora.
Dubois.
Gospel.
Hansberry.
Hip Hop.
History of art
Krump.
Lynching.
Performing arts
PERFORMING ARTS--Theater--General.
PERFORMING ARTS--Theater--History & Criticism.
Plays, playscripts
Pulitzer.
The Arts: treatments and subjects
The Arts
Theatre studies
Universoul.
Vaudeville.
Voguing.
A. Perkins Kathy Adell Sandra Afrocentric Alexander Craft Renee B. Thompson Lisa Black Burton Nefertiti Byrd Rikki Chanelle Truscott Cristal Childress D. Barcliff Baptista Lori D. Luckett Sharrell D. Soyini Madison Diaspora Dubois E. Alvarado Pedro E. Patrick Johnson Effinger-Crichlow Marta F. DeFrantz Thomas Felder Niiamar Fraser Rhone Fulani Sunni-Ali Asantewa G. Shannon Sandra George-Graves Nadine Gooden Amoaba Gospel Greene Melanie Hale Wood Katelyn Hansberry Hip Hop Hodges Persley Nicole Holloway-Burrell JaMeeka J. Hart Denise J. K. Curry Jamie Mary Chester Tabitha Johnson Jasmine Johnson Kashi Jones Johnny Joy Allen Leslye Just Sascha K. Zaheerah Sultan Kelly Baron Kelly Sonny Krump L. Arthur Loyce L. Craft Howard L. Forsgren La Donna L. H. Williams-Witherspoon Kimmika L. Perry Twila L. Richards Sandra LaMothe Mario Lewis Barbara Lynching M. Cizmar Elizabeth M. Mayo Sandra M. Morris Johnson Nicole Marie Seniors Paula Matthew Wooden Isaiah McAllister Marvin Moss-Bouldin Shondrika N. Edwards Margit O'Conn
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2020 - 1 online resource
Free-to-read
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.
Open licence
eng
9781138726710 9781315191225
10.4324/9781315191225 doi
African American actors.
African American dramatists.
African American theater.
African American theatrical producers and directors.
Acteurs noirs américains.
Dramaturges noirs américains.
Producteurs et metteurs en scène de théâtre noirs américains.
Théâtre noir américain.
African American actors
African American dramatists
African American theater
African American theatrical producers and directors
Afrocentric.
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Black.
Childress.
Diaspora.
Dubois.
Gospel.
Hansberry.
Hip Hop.
History of art
Krump.
Lynching.
Performing arts
PERFORMING ARTS--Theater--General.
PERFORMING ARTS--Theater--History & Criticism.
Plays, playscripts
Pulitzer.
The Arts: treatments and subjects
The Arts
Theatre studies
Universoul.
Vaudeville.
Voguing.
A. Perkins Kathy Adell Sandra Afrocentric Alexander Craft Renee B. Thompson Lisa Black Burton Nefertiti Byrd Rikki Chanelle Truscott Cristal Childress D. Barcliff Baptista Lori D. Luckett Sharrell D. Soyini Madison Diaspora Dubois E. Alvarado Pedro E. Patrick Johnson Effinger-Crichlow Marta F. DeFrantz Thomas Felder Niiamar Fraser Rhone Fulani Sunni-Ali Asantewa G. Shannon Sandra George-Graves Nadine Gooden Amoaba Gospel Greene Melanie Hale Wood Katelyn Hansberry Hip Hop Hodges Persley Nicole Holloway-Burrell JaMeeka J. Hart Denise J. K. Curry Jamie Mary Chester Tabitha Johnson Jasmine Johnson Kashi Jones Johnny Joy Allen Leslye Just Sascha K. Zaheerah Sultan Kelly Baron Kelly Sonny Krump L. Arthur Loyce L. Craft Howard L. Forsgren La Donna L. H. Williams-Witherspoon Kimmika L. Perry Twila L. Richards Sandra LaMothe Mario Lewis Barbara Lynching M. Cizmar Elizabeth M. Mayo Sandra M. Morris Johnson Nicole Marie Seniors Paula Matthew Wooden Isaiah McAllister Marvin Moss-Bouldin Shondrika N. Edwards Margit O'Conn
