The Theater of Black Americans: A Collection of Critical EssaysErrol Hill (Applause Books). From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, The Theatre of Black Americans offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded into an American cultural institution. Among the essays: James Hatch Some African Influences on the Afro-American Theatre; Shelby Steele Notes on Ritual in the New Black Theatre; Sister M. Francesca Thompson OSF The Lafayette Players; Ronald Ross The Role of Blacks in the Federal Theatre. |
Contents
Introduction by ErrolHill | 1 |
Some African Influences on the AfroAmerican Theatre by James Hatch | 13 |
Notes on Ritual in the New Black Theater by Shelby Steele | 30 |
Two AfroAmerican Contributions to Dramatic Form by Eleanor W Tray lor | 45 |
From Mimesis to Methexis by Kimberly W Bens ton | 61 |
Americas Debt to the Language of Black Americans by Jim Haskins and Hugh F Butts MD | 79 |
An Origin For The Negro Spiritual by Eileen Southern | 89 |
West African Dance by Robert Farris Thompson | 99 |
The American Negro Theatre by Ethel Pitts Walker | 247 |
Report and Reflections by Tom Dent | 261 |
A Transcendent Vision by Ellen Foreman | 270 |
The Sun People of 125th Street by Jessica B Harris | 283 |
The Participators Audiences and Critics | 293 |
Notes on the Audience for Black Drama by Adam David Miller | 301 |
The Black Theatre Audience by Thomas D Pawley | 307 |
Critics Standards and Black Theatre by Margaret B Wilkerson | 318 |
The Image Makers Plays and Playwrights | 113 |
Keynote of the Harlem Renaissance by Helen Armstead Johnson | 126 |
Langston Hughes as Playwright by Darwin T Turner | 136 |
Loften Mitchell Ossie Davis Douglas Turner Ward by C W E Bigsby | 148 |
Values in Black Theater by William Cook | 168 |
Structural Elements in Ed Bullins Plays by Samuel A Hay | 185 |
A Note on the Black Revolutionary Theatre by Michael W Kaufman | 192 |
The Presenters Companies of Players | 211 |
The Role of Blacks in the Federal Theatre 19351939 by Ronald Ross | 231 |
Black Critics on Black Theatre in America by A biodun Jeyifous | 327 |
1 Must I Side with Blacks or Whites? by Eric Bentley | 336 |
2 Enroute to the Future by Stanley Kauffmann | 341 |
The Search Goes On by Lindsav Patterson | 345 |
Chronology of Important Events | 351 |
Notes on the Editor and Contributors | 355 |
Selected Bibliography | 359 |
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The Theater of Black Americans: Roots and Rituals: the Search for Identity ... Errol Hill No preview available - 1987 |
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