Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkersmdash;many of whom are performersmdash;demonstrates the breadth; depth; innovation; and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance; the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics; the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca; and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance. They examine the work of contemporary choreographers Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson; the ways that African American playwrights translated the theatricality of lynching to the stage; the ecstatic music of Little Richard; and Michael Jacksons performance in the documentary This Is It. The collection includes several essays that exemplify the performative capacity of writing; as well as discussion of a project that re-creates seminal hip-hop album covers through tableaux vivants. Whether deliberating on the tragic mulatta; the trickster figure Anansi; or the sonic futurism of Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy; the essays in this collection signal the vast untapped critical and creative resources of black performance theory.Contributors. Melissa Blanco Borelli; Daphne A. Brooks; Soyica Diggs Colbert; Thomas F. DeFrantz; Nadine George-Graves; Anita Gonzalez; Rickerby Hinds; Jason King; D. Soyini Madison; Koritha Mitchell; Tavia Nyongo; Carl Paris; Anna B. Scott; Wendy S. Walters; Hershini Bhana Young
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