{"title":"Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. By Daphne A. Brooks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021; 608 pp.; illustrations. $39.95 paper, e-book available.","authors":"Masi Asare","doi":"10.1017/s1054204322000375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1054204322000375","url":null,"abstract":"If you’re in the know, there’s a kinda secret but incredible curated playlist of over 150 songs that stands as one possible companion soundtrack to the equally marvelous and expansive yet incisive writing in Daphne Brooks’s new book. It leads off with recorded blues pathbreaker Mamie Smith, her showbiz vocals serving the good kind of crazy, and closes out nine hours later with the uncompromisingly glam truth-teller “our Lady of Lemonade” (9). Bessie and Nina and Eartha and Aretha (or ReRe, in Brooks’s preferred sobriquet), Abbey and Billie and Sarah and Dinah shout and croon, melismatize, rasp, and declaim. The sisters with instrumental prowess are also here, Mary Lou swinging jazz “automotivity” (90) on gas-pedal keys, and Sister Rosetta wielding her Gibson Les Paul like a blessed knife beside fellow travelers of the fretboard including the elusive 1930s blues duo Geeshie Wiley and Elvie (L.V.) Thomas. On to the new vanguard whose “fade to black” sounds (369), after visual artist Carrie Mae Weems’s insight into Black women’s potentiality, rise with Rhiannon Giddens, Valerie June, and Cécile McLorin Salvant — artists Brooks follows through reclaimed minstrel song, strains of “Affrilachian” (550) mysticism, and the jazzwoman’s cool regard for the monstrous. This playlist streams online1 as testament to the ongoing shimmer and breathtaking breadth of Black women in popular music, and to Brooks’s arms-in-open-embrace practice of archival engagement. To encounter this text, one must also encounter the music.","PeriodicalId":46402,"journal":{"name":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"166 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43141443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Larger than Life","authors":"Nele Wynants","doi":"10.1017/S1054204322000326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204322000326","url":null,"abstract":"In Oona Libens’s poetic-scientific theatre of objects, nonhuman actors take center stage in a universe that hangs together with wires and projection apparatuses. Her playful lecture performances resonate with ideas from contemporary ecocritical and new materialist debates.","PeriodicalId":46402,"journal":{"name":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"96 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42368760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Climate Siren","authors":"Lara Stevens, D. Varney","doi":"10.1017/S1054204322000338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204322000338","url":null,"abstract":"An accomplished dancer, acrobat, and physical theatre performer, Hanna Cormick became ill in 2014 with a trifecta of rare genetic conditions that make her severely allergic to pollutants in the air — smoke, detergents, and food particles — and her bones and internal organs prone to dislocation. In January 2020, during Australia’s summer of unprecedented bushfires, Cormick staged The Mermaid, risking her life to make a performance about the climate emergency and how we are all vulnerable bodies at risk in a changing environment.","PeriodicalId":46402,"journal":{"name":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"107 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44648931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reclaiming the Past","authors":"Katia Arfara","doi":"10.1017/S1054204322000272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204322000272","url":null,"abstract":"Interweaving first-person narratives, archives, autobiography, film, and live music, Lola Arias shifts her audience’s attention towards the nature of memory, revealing the inadequacy of binaries such as fact and fiction, truth and imagination. Arias’s major works explore the construction of collective and personal memory in relation to the economic, social, cultural, and psychological influences of the military dictatorships on contemporary Argentinian and Chilean societies.","PeriodicalId":46402,"journal":{"name":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"10 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45315827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Musicological Archaeology and Constança Capdeville","authors":"Filipa Magalhães","doi":"10.1017/S1054204322000302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204322000302","url":null,"abstract":"In a concert of two sound worlds, one acoustic and the other electroacoustic, it is difficult to balance both sonically. When texts, lights, gestures, and movements from different artistic domains such as theatre, dance, or cinema combine with the music this coexistence creates, the result is a new language: the language of Constança Capdeville.","PeriodicalId":46402,"journal":{"name":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"64 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43561798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TDR volume 66 issue 3 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s1054204322000247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1054204322000247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46402,"journal":{"name":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","volume":" ","pages":"b1 - b2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45377858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breathing Bricks","authors":"A. Knapp","doi":"10.1017/s1054204322000363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1054204322000363","url":null,"abstract":"For 100 days in 2015, performance artist Nut Brother dragged a vacuum cleaner through Beijing and formed the collected smog particles into a solid brick. Dust Project brings into sharp relief the harm related to the necessary act of breathing and the effects of anthropogenic climate change. As air quality declines, breathing marks the everyday entanglement with particulate matter and its attendant violences as a performance of endurance.","PeriodicalId":46402,"journal":{"name":"TDR-The Drama Review-The Journal of Performance Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"149 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45123451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}