Sourcebook on African-American Performance

Annemarie Bean is an assistant professor of theatre at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. She was managing editor of The Drama Review for three years, and is the co-editor, with James V. Hatch and Brooks McNamara, of Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy (Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1996), winner of the 1997 Errol Hill Award given by the American Society for Theatre Research for outstanding scholarship in African[1]American theatre studies. Her current project is a study of gender impersonation by white and African-American nineteenth-century minstrels.

• Preface, Introduction, Performing Beyond Pre-formations and Between Movements: Thirty Years of African-American Performance Part I: Theatrical In(ter)ventions of the Black Arts Movement 1 Black Theatre 1998: A Thirty-Year Look at Black Arts Theatre (1998) 2 Clara’s Ole Man (1968) 3 Home on the Range and Police (1968) 4 The Bronx is Next (1968) 5 The Black Arts Movement (1968) 6 Ritual Reformulations: Barbara Ann Teer and the National Black Theatre of Harlem (1998) 7 To Make Black Bodies Strange: Social Critique in Concert Dance of the Black Arts Movement (1998) Part II: Free Southern Theater and Community Activism 8 A Road Through the Wilderness (1998) 9 Dialog: The Free Southern Theater (1965) 10 Motion in the Ocean: Some Political Dimensions of the Free Southern Theater (1968) 11 After the Free Southern Theater: A Dialog (1987) 12 John O’Neal, Actor and Activist: The Praxis of Storytelling (1992) Part III: Moving Beyond the Center 13 Rode a Railroad That Had No Track (1998) 14 Theatre in Historically Black Colleges: A Survey of 100 Years (1998) 15 Stepping, Saluting, Cracking, and Freaking: The Cultural Politics of African-American Step Shows (1991) 16 The Gospel Musical and Its Place in the Black American Theatre (1998) 17 Catalysis: An Interview with Adrian Piper (1972) Part IV: Contemporary Challenges to Representations: African-American Women Playwrights 18 Four Bad Sisters (1998) 19 A Growth of Images (1977) 20 Obsessing in Public: An Interview with Robbie McCauley (1993) 21 Sally’s Rape (1994) 22 Anna Deavere Smith: Acting as Incorporation (1993) 23 The Word Becomes You: An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith (1993) 24 Doo-a-diddly-dit-dit: An Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks and Liz Diamond (1995) 25 The America Play (1994)

'an excellent resource for teachers and researchers' - Speech & Drama'This book is invaluable as an introductory text for students of black performance.' - Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, American Studies 2001