African American Arts

Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity
Herausgeber: Luckett, Sharrell D

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These essays reflect on national and transnational legacies of African American activism as an element of artistic practice, particularly as they concern artistic expression and race relations, and the intersections of creative processes with economic, sociological, and psychological inequalities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781684481521
• ISBN-10: 168448152X
• Artikelnr.: 56735734

Autorenporträt

SHARRELL D. LUCKETT is director of the Helen Weinberger Center for Drama and Playwriting and an assistant professor of drama and performance studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the founding director of the Black Acting Methods Studio, a training program in performance theory and practice.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations                 
 
Visual Foreword: Carrie Mae Weems
 
Series Editor Foreword: Carmen Gillespie
 
Introduction: African American Arts in Action
Sharrell D. Luckett
 
Bodies of Activism
Chapter 1: Trans Identity as Embodied Afrofuturism 
Amber Johnson 
                       
Chapter 2: Designing Our Freedom: Toward a New Discourse of Fashion as a
Strategy for Self
Liberation  
Rikki Byrd
 
Chapter 3: Pearl Primus' Choreo-Activism: 1943-1949  
Doria E. Charlson  
 
Chapter 4: Performing New Nationalism/Performing a Living Culture: Josefina
Báez’s
"Dominicanish"  
Florencia V. Cornet  
 
Chapter 5: Ethnicity, Ethicalness, Excellence: Armond White’s All-American
Humanism
Daniel McNeil
 
Chapter 6: Race and History on the Operatic Stage: Caterina Jarboro Sings
Aida 
Lucy Caplan
 
Music & Visual Art as Activism
Chapter  7: “I Am Basquiat”: Tracing Jean-Michel Basquiat's Alterity and
Activism in
Paint and Performance 
Genevieve Hyacinthe
           
Chapter 8: “I Luh God”: Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel and the Moral Mask of
Language
Discrimination 
Sammantha McCalla
 
Chapter 9: The Hidden Code of the Kongo Cosmogram in African American Art
and Culture
Nettrice R. Gaskins 
 
Chapter 10: From Baldwin to Beyoncé: Exploring the Responsibility of the
Artist in Society--- Re-envisioning the Black Female Sonic Artist as
Citizen  
Abby Dobson
 
Chapter 11: Slaying “Formation”: A Queering of Black Radical Tradition
J. Michael Kinsey 
 
Institutions of Activism
Chapter 12: Centering Blackness Through Performance in Every 28 Hours
Shondrika Moss-Bouldin
 
Chapter 13: Dancing for Justice Philadelphia: Embodiment, Dance, and Social
Change 
Julie B. Johnson
 
Chapter 14: A Conversation with Freddie Hendricks of the Freddie Hendricks
Youth Ensemble
of Atlanta
Sharrell D. Luckett
 
Chapter 15: The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment: Behind the
Mask of Uncle Tomism
and the Performance of Blackness
Jasmine Coles & Tawnya Pettiford-Wates 
 
Afterword: Blackballin'  
A play by Rickerby Hinds
 
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Contributors