Beats and Elements: A Hip Hop Theatre Trilogy: No Milk for the Foxes; DenMarked; High Rise eState of Mind

di Conrad Murray (Autore)

Katie Beswick (Curatore)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2022

This collection of three hip hop plays by Conrad Murray and his Beats & Elements collaborators Paul Cree, David Bonnick Junior and Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens, is the first publication of the critically acclaimed theatre-maker's work. The three plays use hip hop to highlight the inequalities produced by the UK's class system, and weave lyricism, musicality and dialogue to offer authentic accounts of inner-city life written by working-class Londoners. The plays are accompanied by two introductory essays: The first gives a specific social and historical context that helps readers make sense of the plays, the second positions hip hop as a contemporary literary form and offers some ways to read hip hop texts as literature. The collection also includes a foreword by leading hip hop theatre practitioner Jonzi D, interviews with the Beats & Elements company, and a glossary of words for students and international readers.

• Autore: Conrad Murray
• Curatore: Katie Beswick
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 160 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 156 gr.
• EAN: 9781350270596

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