A Sourcebook on African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements
Suzan-Lori Parks, Robbie McCauley, Annemarie Bean, "A Sourcebook on African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements (Worlds of Performance)"
ISBN: 0415182344, 0415182352 | 1999 | EPUB | 376 pages | 4 MB
A Sourcebook on African-American Performance is the first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990s.
As with all titles in the Worlds of Performance series, the Sourcebook consists of classic texts as well as newly commissioned pieces by notable scholars, writers and performers. It includes the plays Sally's Rape by Robbie McCauley and The American Play by Suzan-Lori Parks, and comes complete with a substantial, historical introduction by Annemarie Bean.
Articles, essays, manifestos and interviews included cover topics such as:
theatre on the professional, revolutionary and college stages
concert dance
community activism
step shows
performance art.
Contributors include Annemarie Bean, Ed Bullins, Barbara Lewis, John O'Neal, Glenda Dickersun, James V. Hatch, Warren Budine Jr. and Eugene Nesmith.