E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
Reinventing the Black Southern Community in Sharon Bridgforth’s The love Conjure/blues Text Installation
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Published:June 2016
Matt Richardson, 2016. "Reinventing the Black Southern Community in Sharon Bridgforth’s The love Conjure/blues Text Installation", Blacktino Queer Performance, E. Patrick Johnson, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
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In this chapter, Matt Richardson employs an ethnographic perspective to examine Sharon Bridgforth’s Thelove conjure/blues Text installation. He contends that the jazz aesthetic, an artistic practice that encourages layering of images, ideas, sound, and experiences, informs Bridgforth’s writing, performance, and revision practices. Richardson ultimately concludes that Bridgforth’s deployment of the jazz aesthetic in The love conjure/blues Text Installation enables Bridgforth to honor simultaneous truths, which pries open a space for reenvisioning black communal healing, nonnormative representations of black gender and sexuality, and the queer lives of black ancestors/elders.
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