A Sourcebook on African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements (Worlds of Performance) [Paperback]

Annemarie Bean (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0415182352 | ISBN-13: 978-0415182355 | Edition: 1

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

It will fill a tremendous void, and save on all the legwork of tracking down articles. It will definitely become a part of my courses. I think this will be a terrific book.
–Joni Jones, University of Texas, Austin

This collection brings together significant primary and secondary materials on black theatre and performance--a valuable and much needed research tool.
–Harry J. Elam, Jr., Stanford University

About the Author

Annemarie Bean is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Williams College.

Product Details

• Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (June 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415182352
• ISBN-13: 978-0415182355
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #945,232 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Annemarie Bean is an independent scholar living and raising her children in Vermont. She has taught in the theatre, American Studies and African American Studies Programs at Williams College and Wesleyan University. Along with Sandra L. Burton, Bean organized Stalwart Originality, an annual conference at Williams that celebrated African American performance. Additionally, Bean was a consulting historian for the New-York Historical Society's New York and the Civil War: Slavery and Society exhibition in 2006.

Bean's specialization areas are in performance studies and intercultural performance, with a particular concentration on performances of race and gender in American theatre and performance. She is the co-editor, along with James V. Hatch and Brooks McNamara, of Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy, published by Wesleyan University Press in 1996 and winner of the 1997 Errol Hill Award, given for outstanding scholarship in African American theatre studies by the American Society for Theatre Research. Professor Bean is also the editor of A Sourcebook on African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements, published by Routledge in 1999. She is currently fine-tuning her manuscript, Transperformance: Almost Crossing America. Transperformance centers on American cross-dressed and cross-raced performances on stage and television in the 19th and 20th centuries.