Edited by Kathy A. Perkins, Sandra L. Richards,Renee Alexander Craft, and Thomas F. DeFrantz
CAATP will provide an overview of the field that links historical events to contemporary production.
More than ten years have passed since the publication of important texts such as A History of African American Theatre (Hill and Hatch). CAATP will differ from earlier works as well as from more recent, theoretically-oriented guides in the following ways:
- It is written to engage a readership of undergraduates, early career graduate students, practitioners, and audience members.
- It includes topics overlooked in other volumes, such as the role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); the work of designers, technicians, and choreographers; theatres in prisons; and contemporary African diaspora residents in the United States.
- It examines some of the labor and economic issues that make African American theatre possible across historical time.
- And, it focuses on performances like stepping and marching bands as well as rituals and festivals, thereby allowing readers to perceive fluid relationships between written texts and non-written enactments.
Breakdown of Manuscript
- General Introduction by the editors
- Chronological timeline focusing on key events and artists
- Multiple sections, each preceded by a short overview
- 35 - 45 essays ranging from 2000 to 4000 words in length
- 15-18 practitioner interviews ranging from 3000-3500 words
Authors are invited to submit an abstract, due no later than October 3, 2016
Each proposal submission must be in Microsoft Word format and include: title of paper; abstract (250 words); author’s affiliation(s) and email address; and keywords (four to five words).
Email: QuestionsCompanion2018@gmail.com; SubmitCompanion2018@gmail.com
Suggested Categories and Essay Topics
The topics listed below are suggestive rather than prescriptive. Interested authors are encouraged to suggest other topics.
Institution-building
- Dr. Anne Cooke and HBCUs
- Training of African Americans at HBCUs
- Training of African Americans at predominantly white
institutions
- Black Dance Companies
Festivals: National Black Theatre Festival; The New Black Fest; Gullah Festival; Black Arts Festival; D.C. Black Theatre Festival
Popular Theatre
- Vaudeville
- Musicals: Pioneers; mid-20th century; Contemporary
- Anita Bush and the Lafayette Players
- Choreographers; Musical Biographies
- Chitlin Circuit
Seeing Ourselves Onstage
- African Grove Theatre, Performing Respectability: The Fisk
Jubilee Singers and Hampton University Jubilee Singers, W.E.B. DuBois, The Little Theatre Movement, Anti-lynching Dramas, The Federal Theatre Project, American Negro Theatre and other companies
- Opera
- Feminist Dramas: Early Black Women Playwrights, Contemporary playwrights,
- Black Arts Movement of the 1960s - Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), Amiri Baraka, Woodie King, Jr.,
Barbara Ann Teer, Robert Macbeth, Hazel Bryant, eta Creative Arts, Free Southern Theatre, Inner City Cultural Center, etc.; Black Theatre and Black Studies
- Regional Spotlights: Black theatre in Chicago, Los Angeles, D.C., New Orleans, St. Louis
- Muslims in Theatre
- Black Queer Theatre
- Hip Hop Theatre
- Theatre and Prisons
Experimentation with Form
- Black Directors and Designers: Geoffrey Holder, Vinnette Carroll, George Wolfe
- Ntozake Shange and the choreopoem
- Afrocentric Acting
- One-person shows: Robbie McCauley, Lori Carlos, Whoopi Goldberg, Anna Deavere Smith; Post Anna Deavere Smith generation: Sarah Jones, Daniel Beaty
- Jazz Theatre - Omi Osun Jones
- Suzan-Lori Parks, Tarell Alvin McCraney
- New Media, New Content (Queer pilots for Open TV)
Beyond the Nation
- Performing Abroad: Ira Aldridge; Abolitionist drama; Mid-twentieth century; Contemporary
- Post 1970s Diaspora communities in the US
- African American theatre in Canada, UK, etc.
- Imported from abroad: Black Brits, Africans onstage
African American Performance
- Mardi Gras Indians, Carnival, etc.
- Universoul (Black Circus)
- Stand-up Comedy
- Dance Theatre
- African American Concert Dance
- Social Dance & Community Building: Break Dancing, Clowning, Krumping; Stepping and Marching
Bands; Rites of Passage, The MAAFA; Ballroom, Voguing, and Drag; Praise and Liturgical Dance
Practitioners Speak on the Labor of Making Performances or the Business of the Business
This section will include historical interviews in addition to current practitioners
- Producers, Theatre Managers, Choreographers, Directors, Designers, Critics
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