Say Word! - Voices From Hip Hop Theater

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Banks! Ph.D.! is cofounder of DNAWORKS! an arts and service organization dedicated to fostering artistic expression and dialogue and focusing on issues of identity! culture! class! and heritage. He created and directed the Hip Hop Theatre Initiative and presents workshops on Hip Hop Theater performance across the globe. Klappentext Collects eight works by contemporary artists Abiola Abrams! Zakiyyah Alexander! Chadwick Boseman! Kristoffer Diaz! Rha Goddess! Antoy Grant! Joe Hernandez-Kolski! Rickerby Hinds! and Ben Snyder! with commentary by theatre director! scholar and activist Daniel Banks. The plays deal with compelling issues of our times! including police profiling and brutality! women's empowerment! the commercial exploitation of Hip Hop! and identity politics. Zusammenfassung Compelling plays by leading Hip Hop artists writing in the language of today

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Banks
• Assisted by: Daniel Banks (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780472071326
• ISBN: 978-0-472-07132-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Critical Performances; Critical Performances S.; Critical Performances
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama