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Theater and Performance

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Readying the Revolution

African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement

By Jonathan Shandell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A critical history of Black culture post-World War II that helped cultivate the spirit of Black revolutionary theater

The Revolution Will Be Improvised

The Intimacy of Cultural Activism

By Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance

An examination of revolutionary intimacy-making, experimental performance, and art activism during the civil rights movement

Racing the Great White Way

Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

By Katie N. Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies

Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

By James F. Wilson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages

Being Human during COVID

By Kristin Ann Hass
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Women's Studies

What the humanities can teach us about COVID-19

Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-Hop Theater and Performance

By Nicole Hodges Persley
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies, Music

Explores expressions of Blackness in Hip-Hop performance by non-African American artists

Uncle Tom's Cabins

The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book

By Tracy C. Davis & Stefka Mihaylova
Subjects: African American Studies, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Explores the many ways this mid-nineteenth-century U.S. bestseller functions as world literature and enduring icon

Ellen Stewart Presents

Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theatre

By Cindy Rosenthal
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, American Studies, African American Studies, Biography

A stunning visual chronicle of New York’s iconic performance venue

 

Coloring Whiteness

Acts of Critique in Black Performance

By Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Reading representations of whiteness by contemporary African American performers and artists

The Captive Stage

Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North

By Douglas A. Jones
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, History, American History, African American History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War

Butch Queens Up in Pumps

Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

By Marlon M. Bailey
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Theater and Performance, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture—from the inside

Sounding Like a No-No

Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era

By Francesca T. Royster
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Black popular music and offbeat performance, from Eartha Kitt to Meshell Ndegeocello

Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex

Race, Madness, Activism

By Tony Perucci
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, African American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era

Say Word!

Voices from Hip Hop Theater

By Daniel Banks
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, African American Studies, Music
Series: Critical Performances

Compelling plays by leading Hip Hop artists writing in the language of today

The Problem of the Color[blind]

Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance

By Brandi Wilkins Catanese
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, African American Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How the debate on colorblind versus multicultural casting sheds light on on larger sociopolitical questions

Embodying Black Experience

Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body

By Harvey Young
Subjects: African American Studies, Theater and Performance, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life

The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry

Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America

By Susan Somers-Willett
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, Theater and Performance, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

How do slam poets and their audiences reflect the politics of difference?

Suzan-Lori Parks

By Deborah R. Geis
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Michigan Modern Dramatists

An accessible guide to the inventive language and experimental stagings of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks

Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism

Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement

By Mike Sell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, African American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores the dynamic interactions of performance, politics, and literary criticism in three U.S countercultures in the 1950s and 60s

Ed Bullins

Twelve Plays and Selected Writings

By Ed Bullins
Edited by Mike Sell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Collecting works by one of the most influential playwrights of the Black Arts Movement of the 60s and 70s

Black Cultural Traffic

Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

Edited by Harry Justin Elam & Kennell Jackson
Subjects: Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Music, Theater and Performance, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies

Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics

The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson

By Harry Justin Elam
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies

An indispensable guide to the dramatic work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights

Dancing Histories

Heuristic Ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo

By John C. McCall
Subjects: Anthropology, African American Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance

Outlines a method for incorporating indigenous knowledge into anthropological work as a source of theoretical alternatives

Taking It to the Streets

The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka

By Harry Justin Elam
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Latinx Studies, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

An original and valuable assessment of American political theater in the 1960s and 1970s

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