Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism
by Kimberly W. Benston
Routledge (May 18, 2000)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
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Description of Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism by Kimberly W. Benston
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 provides an exciting meditation on modern Black performance's role in realizing African-American aspirations for autonomy and authority.
Artists covered include:
- John Coltrane
- Ntozake Shange
- Ed Bullins
- Amiri Baraka
- Adrienne Kennedy
- Michael Harper
Performing Blackness is an exciting contribution to the ongoing debate about the vitality and importance of Black culture.
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