Performing blackness : enactments of African-American modernism
Summary: 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. Artists covered include: John Coltrane, Ntozake Shange, Ed Bullins, Amiri Baraka, Adrienne Kennedy, and Michael Harper.
Benston, Kimberly W.
Routledge (Firm)
New York (N.Y.)
English
American literature
African American authors
History and criticism
Performing arts
History
Modernism (Literature)
African Americans in literature
African American arts
United States
Twentieth century
xiii, 386 pages
24 cm
Text
books
Emory University
Emory University. General Libraries