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Monica White Ndounou, Eve Graves - Milestones in Black American Theatre and Performance, Inbunden

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Milestones in Black American Theatre and Performance

Av Monica White Ndounou, Eve Graves

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Milestones in Black American Theatre and Performance is a groundbreaking collection of essays that highlights the historical achievements and contemporary relevance of Black theatre artists and Black theatre institutions in the United States. Designed for weekly use in theatre history courses, each chapter focuses on a significant event or marker that recognizes the institutions and the artistic productions of Black artists and cultural producers. In combination, these milestones situate Black theatre and performance as an ancient art form of cultural expression, within a 200-plus-year history of professional theatre that is constantly in conversation with its histories and contemporary influences in spite of the racial disparities that have plagued American theatre and society. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas. This book is ideal for undergraduate theatre history courses that focus on the inestimable contribution of Black performance to the cultural landscape of the United States.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-12-28
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 453 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Milestones
  • Antal sidor: 300
  • Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781032132907
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Monica White Ndounou (PhD) is Associate Professor at Dartmouth College, USA, and serves as Founder and Executive Director of The CRAFT Institute.Eve Graves (PhD) is Professor and the Chairperson of the Department of Theatre and Communication Studies at Clark Atlanta University, USA.

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“Shaped from the same spirit and conceptual kiln that gave birth to Monica Ndounou’s establishment of Black Theatre Day in 2021, Milestones in Black American Theatre and Performance continues the vital—yet still underexplored—investigations of and within African American theatre that have preceded this volume, offering readers (fellow artists, scholars, teachers, students, and theatre aficionados), new knowledge and formative analysis to help forge a more robust understanding of Black theatre, past and present, concisely highlighting revelatory truths while also demanding our attention to activate efforts for the continuing strength and survival of our artistic futures.Through decisive and illuminating considerations of our theatrical past, Graves and Ndounou offer an accessible, yet richly informed entry into America’s Black theatre history, daring to take on topics that not only offer under-examined historic insights, but also raise queries that promote engaging dialogue and advocacy for communal reckonings, revisions, and renewals.Milestones does its deep thought-work not only through its elevated collection of concise, individual essays, but also by grounding Optimal Conceptual Theory through the inclusion of several ‘curated community conversations,’ thereby broadening its considerations by astutely activating the synergy and knowledge that is uniquely empowered by collective wisdom.Unique to this volume is its insistence on foregrounding scholarly investigations within a Black cultural sphere. Among many examples: while acknowledging linearity and networks of influence, the happenings featured in Milestones are not wholly organized by a chronological framing; rather Milestones duly recognizes the cyclical dynamics and relationships that shape the experience of Black cultures and communities.”Faedra Chatard Carpenter

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