Black Performance I: Subject and Method. Fall 2019 Vol 49, No. 3

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Introduction Black Performance I: Subject and Method
Stephanie Leigh Batiste

Solano Trindade’s Gift to Alvin Ailey: New Evidence from the Black Archives of Mid-America
Ananya Jahanara Kabir & Francesca Negro

Afrosporic Intimacies: Breath, Song, and Wind in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!
Sasha Ann Panaram

Feeling and Falling in Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, the Message is Death
Christina Knight

Reppin’ Blackness: Five Beats on the Art of Derrick Adams
Isaiah Matthew Wooden

The Afterlife of Aretha Franklin’s “Rock Steady:” A Case Study in DJ Scholarship
DJ Lynnée Denise

Book Reviews

The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil by Jaime Amparo Alves/Stephanie Reist; The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by François-Xavier Fauvelle/John K. Thornton; Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley/Darius Bost; Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground by Kinohi Nishikawa/Zachary Manditch-Prottas

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