Routledge Companions: The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance

Editors: Perkins, Kathy A., Richards, Sandra L. and Craft, Renee Alexander et.al
Publication Year: 2019
Publisher: Routledge

Single-User Purchase Price: $250.00
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ISBN: 978-1-13-872671-0
Category: Arts & Leisure - Performing Arts
Image Count: 52
Book Status: Available
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The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance - from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism.

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Table of Contents

  • List of figures
  • Notes on editors and contributors
  • “Black Art Now” Nambi E. Kelley
  • Introduction Renée Alexander Craft, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Kathy A. Perkins, and Sandra L. Richards
  • Highlights of African American theatre and performance
  • Part I: Seeing ourselves onstage
  • Preface Thomas F. DeFrantz
  • 1. Dudley, the Smart Set, and the beginning of the Black entertainment industry Nadine George-Graves
  • 2. Black theatre history plays: remembering, recovering, re-envisioning Sandra M. Mayo
  • 3. “Hung be the heavens with Black” bodies: an analysis of the August 1822 riot at William Brown’s Greenwich Village Theatre Marvin McAllister
  • 4. Mulattoes, mistresses, and mammies: the phantom family in Langston Hughes’ Mulatto Alison Walls
  • 5. Interview with Woodie King, Jr.: producer and director JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell
  • 6. Freedom forward: Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry circling Broadway in the 1950s Barbara Lewis
  • 7. Navigating respectability in turn-of-the-century New York City: Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage Marta Effinger-Crichlow
  • 8. Earle Hyman: Scandinavian successes Baron Kelly
  • 9. Pittsburgh piety: A century of symbolism Pedro E. Alvarado
  • 10. Interview with Ron Simons: Broadway producer Lisa B. Thompson
  • 11. Interview with Paul Tazewell: Costume designer Niiamar Felder
  • 12. Race on the opera stage Twila L. Perry
  • 13. The Wiz and the African Diaspora musical: Rethinking the research questions in Black musical historiography Sam O’Connell
  • 14. Bob Cole’s “Colored Actor’s Declaration of Independence”: The case of The Shoo Fly Regiment and George C. Wolfe’s Shuffle Along Paula Marie Seniors
  • 15. Shuffle Along and ethnic humor: A family story Sandra Seaton
  • 16. Interview with Eva Yaa Asantewaa: Dance writer Thomas F. DeFrantz
  • 17. Black female sexuality in the drama of Pearl Cleage Beth Turner
  • 18. Coming-of-age and rituals of gender nonconformity in Leslie Lee’s The First Breeze of Summer Rhone Fraser
  • 19. Pomo Afro Homos: A revolutionary act Tabitha Jamie Mary Chester
  • Part II: Institution building: a space of our own
  • Preface Kathy A. Perkins
  • 20. Being Black on stage and screen: Black actor training before Black Power and the rise of Stanislavski’s system Monica White Ndounou
  • 21. Three visionary African American women theatre artists: Anita Bush, Barbara Ann Teer, and Ellen Stewart Sandra Adell
  • 22. The birth of Queen Anne: Re-discovering Anne M. Cooke at Spelman College Leslye Joy Allen
  • 23. The Howard University Players: From respectability politics to Black representation Denise J. Hart and Kathy A. Perkins
  • 24. An African American theatre program for the twenty-first century Nefertiti Burton
  • 25. Interview with Karen Allen Baxter: Senior managing director of Rites and Reason Theatre Jasmine Johnson
  • 26. The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc.: One moment in time? Susan Watson Turner
  • 27. Interview with Shirley Prendergast: Lighting designer Kathy A. Perkins
  • 28. Interview with Femi Sarah Heggie: Stage manager Kathy A. Perkins
  • 29. Weathering the winds of change: The sustainability of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company Gregory S. Carr
  • 30. The National Black Theatre Festival and the “Marvtastic” legacy of Larry Leon Hamlin J.K. Curry
  • 31. The Black feminist theatre of Glenda Dickerson Khalid Yaya Long
  • 32. Ernie McClintock’s jazz acting: A theatre of common sense Elizabeth M. Cizmar
  • 33. Black Acting Methods®: Mapping the movement Sharrell D. Luckett
  • 34. Financial fitness of Black theatres: Roundtable of artistic directors K. Zaheerah Sultan
  • 35. A reflection on the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff’s The Hip Hop Project: Insight Into the Hip Hop Generation Johnny Jones
  • 36. Interview with Ekundayo Bandele: Founder and CEO of Hattiloo Theatre Shondrika Moss-Bouldin
  • Part III: Theatre and social change
  • Preface Sandra L. Richards
  • 37. W.E.B. Du Bois, dramatist Freda Scott Giles
  • 38. The Third gift of the Negro: Muslim identity and Du Bois’ Star of Ethiopia Cristal Chanelle Truscott
  • 39. Oh, Ma Dear! What’s going on?: Staging Angelina W. Grimke’s Rachel in the wake of Black Lives Matter Nicole Hodges Persley
  • 40. Leaning left: Why theatre artists in the 1930s were attracted to the Red movement Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon
  • 41. Fighting fire with fire: Violence and the Black Liberation movement Portia Owusu
  • 42. “When we gonna rise”: Free Southern Theater performances of Slave Ship and Black Power in Mississippi Susan Stone-Lawrence
  • 43. From “poemplays” to ritualistic revivals: The experimental works of women dramatists of the Black Arts Movement La Donna L. Forsgren
  • 44. Interview with Micki Grant: Actor, singer, composer, lyricist Kathy A. Perkins
  • 45. Keeping his gloves up: August Wilson and his critics Sandra G. Shannon
  • 46. Interview with Edward Everett Haynes, Jr.: Designer Kathy A. Perkins
  • 47. Afro-Latinx themes in theatre today Daphnie Sicre
  • 48. To be young, performing, and Black: Situating youth in African American theatre and performance history Asantewa Fulani Sunni-Ali
  • 49. Interview with Dr. Kariamu Welsh: Professor and choreographer Amoaba Gooden
  • 50. Robert O’Hara’s defamiliarizing dramaturgy Isaiah Matthew Wooden
  • 51. Black plight in flight Tezeru Teshome
  • 52. Creatively censoring African American drama while teaching in the Arab Gulf region Phyllisa Smith Deroze
  • 53. Mike Wiley: a multi-faceted artist on a mission for social change Sonny Kelly
  • 54. “Locked away but not defeated”: African American women performing resilience Lori D. Barcliff Baptista
  • 55. A hundredfold: an experiential archive of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower: The Opera Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • Part IV: Expanding the traditional stage
  • Preface Renée Alexander Craft
  • 56. Many stories/one body: Black solo performance from vaudeville to spoken word E. Patrick Johnson
  • 57. Standing up: Black feminist comedy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Katelyn Hale Wood
  • 58. My name Mudbone: What I learned about playwriting from Richard Pryor Howard L. Craft
  • 59. Ntozake Shange and the choreopoem Nicole M. Morris Johnson
  • 60. Interview with Donna Walker-Kuhne: Audience development Kathy A. Perkins
  • 61. Performed ethnography D. Soyini Madison
  • 62. The United States of Lucia: Three generations of Haitian-Americans reconfigure ancestry, home, and host lands through storytelling Mario LaMothe
  • 63. “We were what no one else had”: How Black fashion models constructed a new wave of performance and visibility Rikki Byrd
  • 64. Interview with Pam Green: Artist management and consulting Melanie Greene
  • 65. Sidelong glances: Black divas in transit, 1945–1955 Katherine Zien
  • 66. Black Indians of New Orleans: Performing resistance and remembrance Sascha Just
  • 67. Interview with Darryl Montana: Black Indian chief and master artisan Loyce L. Arthur
  • 68. African performance in the feast of St. Francis Xavier in seventeenth-century Luanda, Angola Margit N. Edwards
  • 69. Afrofuturism and the 2018 Wakanda Diaspora carnival Renée Alexander Craft
  • 70. A beginner’s guide to implementing Hip Hop theatre Kashi Johnson
  • 71. Interview with Shirley Basfield Dunlap: Educator and director Eric Ruffin