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Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic : Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project / ed. by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Lisa L. Moore, Sharon Bridgforth.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292792968
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.5/4 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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
Summary: In Austin, Texas, in 2002, a group of artists, activists, and academics led by performance studies scholar Omi Osun Joni L. Jones formed the Austin Project (tAP), which meets annually in order to provide a space for women of color and their allies to build relationships based on trust, creativity, and commitment to social justice by working together to write and perform work in the jazz aesthetic. Inspired by this experience, this book is both an anthology of new writing and a sourcebook for those who would like to use creative writing and performance to energize their artistic, scholarly, and activist practices. Theoretical and historical essays by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones describe and define the African American tradition of art-making known as the jazz aesthetic, and explain how her own work in this tradition inspired her to start tAP. Key artists in the tradition, from Bessie Award–winning choreographer Laurie Carlos and writer/performer Robbie McCauley to playwrights Daniel Alexander Jones and Carl Hancock Rux, worked with the women of tAP as mentors and teachers. This book brings together never-before-published, must-read materials by these nationally known artists and the transformative writing of tAP participants. A handbook for workshop leaders by Lambda Literary Award–winning writer Sharon Bridgforth, tAP's inaugural anchor artist, offers readers the tools for starting similar projects in their own communities. A full-length script of the 2005 tAP performance is an original documentation of the collaborative, breath-based, body work of the jazz aesthetic in theatre, and provides both a script for use by theatre artists and an invaluable documentation of a major transformative movement in contemporary performance.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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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In Austin, Texas, in 2002, a group of artists, activists, and academics led by performance studies scholar Omi Osun Joni L. Jones formed the Austin Project (tAP), which meets annually in order to provide a space for women of color and their allies to build relationships based on trust, creativity, and commitment to social justice by working together to write and perform work in the jazz aesthetic. Inspired by this experience, this book is both an anthology of new writing and a sourcebook for those who would like to use creative writing and performance to energize their artistic, scholarly, and activist practices. Theoretical and historical essays by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones describe and define the African American tradition of art-making known as the jazz aesthetic, and explain how her own work in this tradition inspired her to start tAP. Key artists in the tradition, from Bessie Award–winning choreographer Laurie Carlos and writer/performer Robbie McCauley to playwrights Daniel Alexander Jones and Carl Hancock Rux, worked with the women of tAP as mentors and teachers. This book brings together never-before-published, must-read materials by these nationally known artists and the transformative writing of tAP participants. A handbook for workshop leaders by Lambda Literary Award–winning writer Sharon Bridgforth, tAP's inaugural anchor artist, offers readers the tools for starting similar projects in their own communities. A full-length script of the 2005 tAP performance is an original documentation of the collaborative, breath-based, body work of the jazz aesthetic in theatre, and provides both a script for use by theatre artists and an invaluable documentation of a major transformative movement in contemporary performance.

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