Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism

by Kimberl Benston

Book Overview

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
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415009480
• ISBN13: 9780415009485
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"