Life of the Party

An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.

About the author

Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, filmmaker and the author of five collections of poetry including Hollywood Forever and Maafa. She curates a standing archive space for griot poetics and a related performance and events series at LA’s music and archive venue 2220arts. She has received the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a NYFA fellowship, a Schomburg Fellowship, a California Book Award, a research fellowship from Harvard, and a teaching fellowship from UC Berkeley. She’s currently working on a collection of essays for Duke University Press, a biography of Abbey Lincoln, and an exhibition on backstage culture for The Kitchen in New York, in addition to other writing, film, and curatorial projects.

Product details

• Authors: Harmony Holiday
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.03.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781635902013
• ISBN: 978-1-63590-201-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Weight: 501 g
• Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business