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class="bibItemsHeader"> LOCATION </th> <th width="43%" class="bibItemsHeader"> SHELF NO </th> <th width="24%" class="bibItemsHeader"> STATUS </th> </tr> <tr class="bibItemsEntry"> <td width="33%" > Main Library </td> <td width="43%" > <a href="/search?/cPN+1590.B53+GAI/cpn+1590+b53+gai/-3,-1,,E/browse">PN 1590.B53 GAI</a>  </td> <td width="24%" > Not Issued </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="bibDisplayContentMore">  <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="bibDetail"> <tr class="bibInfoEntry" ><td>  <table width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Description</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> x, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Series</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> <a href="/search?/tSexual+cultures./tsexual+cultures/-3,-1,0,B/browse">Sexual cultures.</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Bibliog.</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> Includes bibliographical references and index.</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Contents</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> Introduction : a legacy of radical differences -- Nina Simone's quadruple consciousness -- Efua Sutherland, Ama Ata Aidoo, the state, and the stage -- The radical ambivalence of G眉nther Kaufmann -- The Cockettes, Sylvester, and performance as life -- Afterword : a history of impossible progress.</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Summary</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> This book illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s. These ideas paved the way for imaginative models for social transformation through performance. Using the notion of excess -- its transgression, multiplicity, and ambivalence -- Malik Gaines considers how performances of that era circulated a black political discourse capable of unsettling commonplace understandings of race, gender, and sexuality. Following the transnational route forged by W.E.B. Du Bois, Josephine Baker, and other modern political actors, from the United States to West Africa, Europe and back, this book considers how artists negotiated at once the local, national, and diasporic frames through which race has been represented. Looking broadly at performances found in music, theater, film, and everyday life from American singer and pianist Nina Simone, Ghanaian playwrights Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, Afro-German actor Gunther Kaufmann, to California-based performer Sylvester Gaines explores how shared signs of racial legacy and resistance politics are articulated with regional distinction. Bringing the lens forward through contemporary art performance at the 2015 Venice Biennial, Gaines connects the idea of sixties radicality to today's interest in that history, explores the aspects of those politics that are lost in translation, and highlights the black expressive strategies that have maintained potent energy.</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Subject</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> <a href="/search?/dBlacks+in+the+performing+arts./dblacks+in+the+performing+arts/-3,-1,0,B/browse">Blacks in the performing arts.</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td class="bibInfoData"> <a href="/search?/dBlacks+--+Political+activity./dblacks+political+activity/-3,-1,0,B/browse">Blacks -- Political activity.</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">Other Format</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> <a href="/search/t?Black+performance+on+the+outskirts+of+the+left.">Online version: Gaines, Malik. Black performance on the outskirts of the left. New York : New York University, 2017 9781479822607 (OCoLC)993672013</a></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" class="bibInfoLabel">ISBN</td> <td class="bibInfoData"> 9781479837038</td></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td class="bibInfoData"> 1479837032</td></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td class="bibInfoData"> 9781479804306</td></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td class="bibInfoData"> 1479804304</td></tr> </table>  </td></tr> </table>  </div> <div class="bibDisplayContentMore bibDisplayReviews"> <div class="bibDisplayPermLink actionButtonArea"> <a href="/record=b1786281"><span class="button"><img src="/screens/ico_bookmark.gif" alt=""><span class="buttonText">Permanent Link</span></span></a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <br />    </div> <div> <center> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a> <a class="addthis_button_compact"></a> <a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"></a> </div> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-4dff039d048138b4"></script> </center> </div> </div> </div>  </body> </html>