Search Results for black performance

... This chapter examines the use and performance of hip hop by the British Columbian artist Wayde Compton to channel and rearticulate local black history and diasporic subjectivities in works such as 49th Parallel Psalm and Performance Bond . Inspired by a long tradition of jazz and blues poetry...

... Soul! was a cultural expression of Black Arts and Black Power that also dared to explore the tensions within nationalist political and cultural formations. Produced and hosted by Ellis Haizlip, a gay man, the show made a point of making visible black identities ordinarily marginalized within...

...) and Delaney’s painting The Time of Your Life (1945) as examples, the essay asserts that performance offered both artists the opportunity not only to perceive Blackness but also to render it visible. Performativity became a way both to navigate and to displace already given codes and stereotypes about...

... as performative act occur as a signifying menace, a threat to the categorical regimes of race and being. The chapter also addresses the relative absence of significant attention to Chameleon Street especially in relationship to the black film explosion of 1991. This involves reading the film’s inability to gain...

...Performing Blackness ...