Title Object Performance in the Black Atlantic The United States

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (313 p.) Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I The African American Object Performance Complex -- 1 Introduction to the African American Object Performance Complex -- 2 Minkisi: Ritual Objects as Lines of Resistance -- 3 Mechanical Negroes -- 4 African American Story Cycles -- 5 The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Object Performance in African American Dance -- 6 Music is Our Mother Tongue: Object Performance in African American Music -- Part II African American Object Performance Overcoming Jim Crow 7 From Minstrelsy to Vaudeville: John W. Cooper Crafts an Entrée -- 8 Shadows Uplifted: African American Object Performance under Jim Crow -- 9 Creating Communities -- 10 Throwing Voice: African American Ventriloquists -- 11 In the Image of God: Puppet Ministry and Object Performance in the Black Church -- 12 Political Activism and African American Object Performance -- Part III Object Performance in African American Dramatic Presentations -- 13 African American Puppet Modernism: Alice Swann and the Wonderland Puppet Theatre -- 14 Staging Stories: African American Folktales and Puppet Theater 15 Object Performance in African American Visual Art -- 16 African Americans and Object Performance in American Theater -- 17 African American Puppet Film -- 18 African American Puppetry in Social Media -- 19 The Substance of Things Hoped for: Contemporary African American Puppet Theater -- Index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Puppet theater -- United States -- History African American theater -- History Object (Philosophy) in the theater. African American theater. Puppet theater. United States. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000919882 1000919889

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