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Nothing But the Music
Thulani Davis' synesthetic documentary poems breathe impressionistic life into the sonic-social history of East Coast avant-garde jazz, soul and punk Written between 1974 and 1985, these are Davis' most anthologized works. Featured musicians and dancers include Cecil Taylor, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bad Brains, Henry Threadgill, Thelonious Monk, the Revolutionary Ensemble, the Commodores, Ishmael Houston-Jones and many more, in performances at historic venues such as the Five Spot, the Village Vanguard and the Apollo. Nothing but the Musicis further proof of Davis' place as a crucial figure, alongside poets Jayne Cortez, Sonia Sanchez and Ntozake Shange, in the cultural landscape surrounding the Black Arts Movement. Thulani Davis(born 1949) is the author of the novels 1959and Maker of Saints, several works of poetry and the forthcoming book The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom(Duke University Press). She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin.
Malcolm X
Black and white photographs of Malcolm X during his public career, 1960-65, by some of the best known photographers. Includes a chronology and an essay on his life and ideas. No index. Distributed by Workman.
1959
1959--The year that Willie Tarrant's world changed forever as she, her family, and friends are caught up in peaceful protests turned violent, boycotts, moral issues, anger, conviction, and the joy of right action.
My Confederate Kinfolk
Starting with a photograph and some writings left by her grandmother, Thulani Davis goes looking for the "white folk" in her family-a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to her-and uncovers a history far richer and stranger than she had ever imagined. When Davis's grandmother died in 1971, she was writing a novel about her parents, Mississippi cotton farmers who met after the Civil War: Chloe Curry, a former slave from Alabama, married with several children, and Will Campbell, a white planter from Missouri who had never marriedIn this compelling intersection of genealogy, memoir, and Reconstruction history, Davis picks up where her grandmother left off. Her journey takes her from M...
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York
A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.
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The Maker of Saints
A QPB and BOMC selection. The author's previous novel, 1959, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Bird Kinkaid is an African-American woman who has recently been plagued by nightmares: It is a month after she witnessed Alex, her closest friend, plunge eight stories to her death on the sidewalk below and her grief has turned into obsession. Was Alex killed or was it a suicide? Was it an accident or did the white art critic and sometimes lover Frank Burton push her to her death? The two women had an intense friendship, their lives intertwined by shared space, history, friends (and occasionally lovers), and a passion for art. Alex's death shatters Bird, compelling her to search f...
Everybody's Ruby
An acclaimed novelist and poet, as well as the librettist for the opera Malcolm X, Thulani Davis is one of our most acclaimed and provocative writers, and now she takes aim at a national scandal that rocked a tiny Florida town in 1952, when a black woman named Ruby McCollum murdered her white employer. But Ruby's act was not one of simple black and white -- her victim had been her lover, and the unraveling of her motives and their relationship revealed not a simple cold-blooded murder or crime of passion but something far more complicated and insidious. Through the eyes of novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston -- who covered Ruby's trial, confronting lies, secrecy, and good old-fashioned racism -- Thulani Davis has told an important story of race and sex in America. "An engrossing piece of theater with a manifest compassion." -- Peter Marks, The New York Times " An intriguing and ambitious new play ... that demonstrates that the truth can be a lot more complicated than fiction." --David Kaufman, New York Daily News
This Child's Gonna Live
Classic novel of an African American woman's survival amidst poverty, called "a small masterpiece" by the New York Times.
The Color of Theater
The Color of Theater presents a range of essays, interviews and performance texts that illustrate and examine the process, evolution and dynamics of making theater in the dawning moments of the 21st century. It brings together writings by artists, intellectuals and art activists exploring contemporary practices within multicultural, intercultural and ethnically specific theaters. This provocative and dynamic resource brings forth critical issues of cultural aesthetics engaging theater as a crucial site for examining the intricate intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality and national and global politics.Contributors include: Rustom Bharucha, Thulani Davis, Harry Elam, Guillermo Gomez-Pea, Velina Hasu Huston, Cherrfe Moraga, David Romn, Sekou Sundiata, Diana Taylor, Una Chaudhuri, Alberto Sandoval-Snchez and lO thi diem thy.
