TY - BOOK ID - 136023046 TI - Black performance theory AU - DeFrantz, Thomas AU - Gonzalez, Anita. PY - 2014 SN - 9780822377016 0822377012 0822356074 0822356163 PB - Durham ; London : Duke University Press DB - UniCat KW - Black people in the performing arts KW - African Americans in the performing arts UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136023046 AB - Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers-many of whom are performers-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 embra ER -