African Americans On Stage: A Selected Bibliography.African Americans have developed some of the most dynamic forms of stage artistry. The territorial scope of our artistic legacies is broad, and black dramatic expressivity expressivity /ex·pres·siv·i·ty/ (eks?pres-siv´i-te) in genetics, the extent to which an inherited trait is manifested by an individual. includes the popular, the profane, the improvisational, the experimental. Exploring black performance history gives us a deeper and more resonant appreciation for our contemporary forms. A number of books are available that present the rich and varied history of black performance from different perspectives. (*) Asterisks indicate top recommendations. The Black Stage (*) Langston Hughes Noun 1. Langston Hughes - United States writer (1902-1967) James Langston Hughes, Hughes and Milton Meltzer, Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1967/1990, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-306-80406-9 (*) Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns, Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance Vernacular dances are dances which have developed 'naturally' as a part of 'everyday' culture within a particular community. The word 'vernacular' is used here in much the same as it is in reference to vernacular language. , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , DaCapo Press, 1999, ISBN 0-306-80553-7 (*) Nadine George, The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theatre 1900-1940, New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000, ISBN 0-312-2562-8 (*) James Weldon Johnson, Black Manhattan, Published 1930, Reprint, New York, DaCapo Press, 1991, ISBN 0-306-80431-X Reid Badger, A Life in Ragtime ragtime: see jazz. ragtime U.S. popular music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries distinguished by its heavily syncopated rhythm. Ragtime found its characteristic expression in formally structured piano compositions, the accented left-hand : A Biography of James Reese Europe James Reese Europe (22 February, 1881 – 9 May, 1919) was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer. He was the leading figure on the African American music scene of New York City in the 1910s. Europe was born in Mobile, Alabama. , New York Replica Books, 2001, ISBN 0-735-10296-1 Thomas Riis, Just Before Jazz: Black Musical Theater in New York There are many famous theaters in New York, most notably the Broadway theatres in New York City.
Mel Watkins, On the Real Side, Chicago, Chicago Review Press, 1999, ISBN 1-556-52351-3 Allen Woll, Black Musical Theatre: From Coontown to Dreamgirls, New York, Da Capo Press, 1989, ISBN 0-306-80454-9 Performer's Autobiographies (*) Ethel Waters with Charles Samuels, His Eye is on the Sparrow, New York, Da Capo Press, 1992, ISBN 0-306-80477-8 Josephine Baker and Jo Buillone, Josephine, Translated by Mariana Fitzpatrick. New York, Marlowe and Company, 1988, ISBN 1-569-24978-4 Sidney Bechet, Treat it Gentle, New York, DaCapo Press, 1996, ISBN 0-306-80086-1 W. C. Handy Noun 1. W. C. Handy - United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958) Handy, William Christopher Handy , Father of the Blues, New York, Da Capo Press, 1991, ISBN 0-306-80921-2 Billie Holiday and William Dufty, Lady Sings the Blues, New York, Penguin, 1989, ISBN 0-140-06762-0 Out of Print (*) Thomas Fletcher, 100 Years of Negro Show Business New York, DaCapo Press, 1995, ISBN 0-306-76219-6 (*) Robert Kimball and William Bolcolm, Reminiscing With Sissle and Blake, New York, Viking Press, 2000, ISBN 0-815-41045-X Jo A. Tanner, Dusky Maidens: The Odyssey of the Early Black Dramatic Actress, Westport, Greenwood Press, 1992, ISBN 0-313-27717-6 Selected Bibliography Badger, Reid, A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe, New York, Replica Books, 2001, ISBN 0-735-10296-1 Bricktop and Haskins, James, Bricktop, New York, Welcome Rain, 1999, ISBN 1-566-649114-2 Carlson, Marvin, Performance: a Critical Introduction, New York, Routledge, 1996 Fletcher, Thomas, 100 Years of Negro Show Business, New York, Da Capo Press, 1984, ISBN 0-415-13703-9 (OP) Gordon, Taylor, Born to Be, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995 Hadju, David, Lush Life, New York: North Point Press, 1997, ISBN 0-865-47512-1 Krasner, David, Resistance, Parody and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998, ISBN 0-312-21925-3 Lhamon, W. T. Raising Cain, Blackface Performance: From Jim Crow to Hip Hop Cambridge, Harvard University Press The Harvard University Press is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in academic publishing. It was established on January 13, 1913. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. , 2000, ISBN 0-674-00193-1 Lotz, Rainer, Black People: Entertainers of African Descent in Germany and Europe Berlin, Birgit Lotz Verlag, 1998 Riis, Thomas, Just Before Jazz: Black Musical Theater in New York, 1890-1915, Washington, Smithsonian Institute Press, 1989, ISBN 0-874-74788-0 Roach, Joseph, Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance, New York, Columbia University Press Columbia University Press is an academic press based in New York City and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by James D. Jordan (2004-present) and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fields of literary and cultural studies, , 1996, ISBN 0-231-10461-8 Thorpe, Edward, Black Dance, London, Overlook Press, 1989, ISBN, 0-879-51379-9 Woll, Allen, Black Musical Theatre: From Coontown to Dreamgirls, New York, Da Capo Press, 1989, ISBN 0-306-80454-9 |
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