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

Author:   Omi Osun Joni L. Jones ,  Lisa L. Moore ,  Sharon Bridgforth
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
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9780292722040


Pages:   392
Publication Date:   01 July 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Omi Osun Joni L. Jones ,  Lisa L. Moore ,  Sharon Bridgforth
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.738kg
ISBN:  

9780292722040


ISBN 10:   0292722044
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   01 July 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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Preface: How to Use This Book Acknowledgments PART I: Framing the Work Chapter One. Making Space: Producing the Austin Project Chapter Two. Finding Voice: Anchoring the Austin Project's Artistic Process PART II: Working the Work: An Anthology of Austin Project Writings Chapter Three. Polyphony: Writings by Ensemble Members Chapter Four. Call and Response: Performance Pieces by Austin Project Guest Artists Chapter Five. Affirming Connection: Pre-Show Artists' Performance Texts Chapter Six. Spoken Word Orchestra: A Full Script from the Austin Project Jam Session, December 2005 PART III: The Work of Transformation Chapter Seven. Transforming Practice: Artists, Activists, and Academics Working across Boundaries Chapter Eight. Work of the Spirit: A Conversation with an Austin Project Elder Chapter Nine. Narrating the Austin Project: The First Five Years Notes Index

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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. SHARON BRIDGFORTH is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the bull-jean stories and love conjure/blues. She is a member of New Dramatists and served as the Anchor Artist for the Austin Project from 2002-2009.

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