Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

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397 Index 3rd Base, 178, 361 50 Cent, 178 Abiodun, Nehanda, 280 Achebe, Chinua, 145, 255 Afolabi, Niyi, 281 African American modernisms, 148– 60 African art and cubism, 21, 150 African diaspora spirituality: candomblé in Brazil, vodun in Haiti, Santeria in Cuba, Yoruba, 157 African theater: critical studies of African popular theater, 45–46; indigenous African performance, 44; in Kenya, 24, 43; the Kumapin Royals in Ghana, 45; in London, 31; in Nigeria , 24; Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival, 48; Woza Albert! in South Africa, 43. See also concert party theater in Ghana and Jaguar Jokers Africobra: Ben Jones, Jeff Donaldson, and Wandsworth Jarrell, 152 Afro hairstyle, 15, 23, 197, 199, 246, 248, 263, 386 Aggrey, Dr. James Emman Kwegyir (“Aggrey of Africa”), 51, 52 Ali, Muhammad, 251, 252 Amos ’n‘ Andy, 134 Anderson, Benedict, 175, 177, 292 apartheid and postapartheid in South Africa, 44 Appollinaire, Guillaume, 227 Armstrong, Louis, xx, 18, 95, 102, 346 Ashanti, 147 Auslander, Philip, 385 Austin, Joe, 268 Avedon, Richard, 262 Baby Phat, 332, 333 Badu, Erykah, 88, 170, 173, 189, 197 Bahamadiya, 267 Baker, Houston, 255 Baker, Josephine, 128, 135, 222, 230–37 Balibar, Étienne, 169, 179 Bamako, 242 Bannister, Edward Mitchell, 151 Banton, Buju, 181 Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 152, 255 Barber, Karin, 24 Barkley, Charles, 92, 93 Barr, Alfred, 150 Barthes, Roland, 89, 93, 103, 326, 334, 336 Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 156 Beale, Howard, 356 Bearden, Romare, 148–50, 155, 156 Beastie Boys, The, 178 Beatles, The, 104, 242, 244, 250 Beenie Man, 181 Bell, Clive, 150 Bennett, Gwendolyn, 228, 229, 236 Berger, John, 198 Berkeley, Busby, 235 Bernhard, Sandra, 135, 193–94 Berry, Halle, 203 B.G. (Baby Gangsta), 11 Bhabha, Homi K., 46, 131, 186, 223 Big Punisher (Chris Rios), 27, 134–36 Black Arts Movement (BAM), 149, 152, 153, 173, 381 Black August Hip Hop Collective, 279, 280 blackface performance: Harriet Beecher Stowe, 127; in›uence on Ghana concert party theater, 44–53; Japanese, 128, 131–35, 223, 235, 266, 347, 350–62, 384–85; Jim Crow, 120–24; and blackface performance (continued) Parisian jazz bands, 228; minstrelsy, 7, 10–11, 20, 127, 385. See also Lee, Spike, Bamboozled Black New Afrikan Liberation Movement , 279 Black Panthers, 173, 280, 281, 373 Black Power Movement, 11, 12, 214, 380 Black Skin, White Masks, 155 Blackstar, 173, 279, 280 blaxploitation ‹lms, 369–71 Blige, Mary, 10, 97 Bohee brothers, 4 Boime, Albert, 151 Bojangles, Bill, 92, 349 Boondocks, The, 103, 104 Boone, Pat, 14, 136 Boricua, 273 Bourdieu, Pierre, 246, 249, 250 Boyd, Todd, 357, 359, 384 Brady, Mary Pat, 367 Brand Nubian, 171, 267 Brando, Marlon, 244 Brandy (Moesha), 317 Brer Rabbit, 133 Bricktop, 227–29, 231–32 Briggs, Cyril, 232 Broun, Heywood, 225 Brown, Foxy, 173 brown, iona rozeal, 385 Brown, James, 22, 28, 89, 90, 101, 102, 104, 144, 243, 244, 251–64 Brown, Wesley, 135 Brown, William Wells, 1–6, 10, 19, 20, 30, 31 Buford, Takashi, 366 Buju Banton, 181 Burnett, Charles, 113 Bush, George W., 13 Busta Rhymes, 97, 98, 170, 271, 330 Butler, Judith, 223 Butter›y McQueen, 361 Byrd, Donald, 133, 269 Campbell, Lucie E., 6 capoeira, 283, 284 Carby, Hazel, 186, 340 Carey, Mariah, 128, 185–207 Carlos, Tommy, 214 Carpenter, Hurricane, 252 Carpenters, The, 93 cashun, 165 Castro, Fidel, 251, 273–76 Cedric the Entertainer, 5, 317 Césaire, Aimé, 247, 248, 261 Cezanne, Paul, 150 Chanfrau, Frank, 134 Charles, Jacques, 232 Charles, Michael Ray, 114, 115, 117, 122, 123 Charles, Ray, 94, 95 Charters, Samuel, 294 Chartier, Roger, 7 Chayevsky, Paddy, 356 Checker, Chubby, 22 Cherry, Don, 296 Chuck D., 174 Civil Rights Movement, 85, 254, 380 Clark, Dick, American Bandstand, 14, 15 Clash, The, 134 Clifford, James, 143 Clinton, Bill, 13 Clinton, George, and Parliament, 12, 269 Cochran, Johnny, 358 Cole, Nat King, 85, 101 Colescott, Robert, 126 Collins, Bootsie, 103 Combs, Sean (Puff Daddy, P. Diddy), 173, 193, 272, 331, 338 Common, 97, 98, 166, 167, 267 concert party theater in Ghana and Jaguar Jokers, 22, 44–57 Condé, Maryse, 255 Conquergood, Dwight, 72, 76 Consejo, Anonimo, 177 Coolio, 283 Cortez, Jane, 303 Cosby, Bill, 312–14, 317 Coup, The, 267 Crane, Diana, 332 Crawford, Jamarhl, 180 Crosby, Bing, 361 Crosby, Stills, and Nash, 243 INDEX 398 Crouch, Stanley, 356 Cullen, Countee, 157 D12, 178 Daara J., 25 Da Brat, 200, 202 DaFora, Asadata, 21 Danner, Margaret, 15 Dar es Salaam, 271 Dash, Julie, 113, 114...