BPT -- Working group on African American Performativity
About BPT	English (USA)
Working group of scholars and artists focused on the theory, history, and practice of African American expressive cultures. Approaches vary widely in this interdisciplinary subject area, which attempts to link performative commonalities of African diaspora performance including gospel music, concert dance, hip hop music, black church oratory, architecture and public space theory, and queer cultures. Scholars and artists working in this area are drawn from diverse disciplines including anthropology, performance, religious studies, ethnography, theater history, dance studies, and cultural studies engage in vibrant debate and critical discussions of methodologies, paradigms, and approaches to theorizing black performance. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the BPT Archives. (The current archive is only available to the list members.)
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