ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as anthropology, art, music, literature, dance, philosophy, religion, and theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and students interested in tracing African heritage identities throughout the African Diaspora through close examination of a variety of discourses directly connected to expressive elements of cultural production and religious rituals. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Editorial Note Globalization of Africana Aesthetics Part I Ashé Conceptual Frame 1 Like Echoes Across the Continuum: Wangechi Mutu’s New Horizons in Afro-Cosmology 2 “Salt Peanuts”: Sound and Sense in African/American Oral/Musical Creativity 3 Àṣẹ: The Empowered Word Must Come to Pass 4 Tey: Seeing as a Ritual for a Good Death Part II Ashé Cultural Frame 5 Eric Waters: Capturing the Culture 6 Dub in the Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics of the Sacred and the Secular 7 Sensibility and the African Continuum 8 I Will Not Be Erased! Part III Ashé And Arts Disciplines 9 Aesthetics of Beauty: In an Africana Mode 10 “Undone”: Bottle Trees, Charms, and Flashing Spirits 11 From Bebop to Hiphop to Butch Morris’ Marvelously Liberating Omni-Musical Conjurations of Conduction 12 Risa Thomas: A “Cultural Flashpoint” Representative of the Dramatic Journey of Two Trains Running Ashé at the Crossroad Editors "ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the Humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and students interested in tracing African heritage identities throughout the African Diaspora through close examination of a variety of discourses directly connected to expressive elements of cultural production and religious rituals"-- Provided by publisher ‘ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity'is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the Humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and students interested in tracing African heritage identities throughout the African Diaspora through close examination of a variety of discourses directly connected to expressive elements of cultural production and religious rituals. ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African Diaspora with the Humanities at the core, this collection of essays will break new ground in the study of Black Aesthetics. This book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners, and students interested in tracing African heritage identities throughout the African Diaspora through close examination of a variety of discourses directly connected to expressive elements of cultural production and religious rituals