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Plays from the boom box galaxy : theater from the hip-hop generation / edited by Kim Euell, with Robert Alexander.

Title
Plays from the boom box galaxy : theater from the hip-hop generation / edited by Kim Euell, with Robert Alexander.
Publication
New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Euell, Kim.
  • Alexander, Robert
Description
xxx, 397 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
A collection of plays informed by hip-hop culture, featuring the work of both emerging and mid-career writers. That many of the works are solo pieces with accompanying music reflects the genesis of hip-hop theatre in rapping and MC-ing.
Alternative Title
Theater from the hip-hop generation
Subject
  • American drama > African American authors
  • Experimental drama, American
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ruminations on identity. The evidence of silence broken / by Zell Miller III -- Peaches / by Cristal Chanelle Truscott -- The no black male show / by Carl Hancock Rux -- Cautionary tales. Free Jujube Brown! / by Psalmayene 24 -- Beatbox / by Tommy Shepherd and Dan Wolf -- Death of a ho / by Jake-ann Jones -- Transformationals. Word becomes flesh / by Marc Bamuthi Joseph -- Thieves in the temple / by Aya de León -- Flow / by Will Power.
ISBN
  • 9781559362924 (alk. paper)
  • 1559362928 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009005979
OCLC
  • 144518917
  • SCSB-12064953
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library