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Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project

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Description for Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project Paperback. Suitable for those who would like to use creative writing and performance to energize their artistic, scholarly, and activist practices, this title includes essays that describe and define the African American tradition of art-making known as the jazz aesthetic. Editor(s): Jones, Omi Osun Joni L.; Moore, Lisa L.; Bridgforth, Sharon. Num Pages: 316 pages, 1 photo, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 618.

In Austin, Texas, in 2002, a group of artists, activists, and academics led by performance studies scholar Omi Osun Joni L. Jones formed the Austin Project (tAP), which meets annually in order to provide a space for women of color and their allies to build relationships based on trust, creativity, and commitment to social justice by working together to write and perform work in the jazz aesthetic.

Inspired by this experience, this book is both an anthology of new writing and a sourcebook for those who would like to use creative writing and performance to energize their artistic, scholarly, and activist ... Read more

Key artists in the tradition, from Bessie Award–winning choreographer Laurie Carlos and writer/performer Robbie McCauley to playwrights Daniel Alexander Jones and Carl Hancock Rux, worked with the women of tAP as mentors and teachers. This book brings together never-before-published, must-read materials by these nationally known artists and the transformative writing of tAP participants. A handbook for workshop leaders by Lambda Literary Award–winning writer Sharon Bridgforth, tAP's inaugural anchor artist, offers readers the tools for starting similar projects in their own communities. A full-length script of the 2005 tAP performance is an original documentation of the collaborative, breath-based, body work of the jazz aesthetic in theatre, and provides both a script for use by theatre artists and an invaluable documentation of a major transformative movement in contemporary performance.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Condition
New
Series
Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292722873
SKU
V9780292722873
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About Omi Osun Joni Jones
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones is Director of the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies and Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. Lisa L. Moore is Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. ... Read more

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