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Black Performance Studies

Black Performance Studies is an interdisciplinary subfield of performance studies and Black/Africana studies that examines Black expressive and embodied practices—across staged art, everyday performance, and cultural ritual—as key sites of racialized experience, knowledge production, and political struggle within the African diaspora.

422

Publications

26.6K

Citations

399

Authors

138

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

63

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Children

Publications

422

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America.

Houston A. Baker, Tricia Rose · African American Review · 1995 · 1.4K citations

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Black noise: rap music and black culture in contemporary America

Choice Reviews Online · 1994 · 895 citations

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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Tricia Rose · Notes · 1995 · 738 citations

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Appropriating blackness: performance and the politics of authenticity

Choice Reviews Online · 2004 · 511 citations

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Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

tobias c. van Veen · Dancecult · 2013 · 482 citations · Full text

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Authors

399

  1. EL
    Eric Lott

    Yale University, United States

    5 publications · 324 citations

    5

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  2. TF
    Thomas F. DeFrantz

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    4 publications · 110 citations

    4

    h-index

  3. DB
    David B. Coplan

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    4 publications · 384 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. DK
    David Krasner

    Yale University, United States

    4 publications · 283 citations

    4

    h-index

  5. AK
    Anthea Kraut

    3 publications · 138 citations

    3

    h-index

1–5 of 399

Institutions

138

  1. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    315 citations

  2. American Bar Foundation

    Chicago, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    57 citations

  3. Washington University in St. Louis

    St Louis, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    54 citations

  4. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    311 citations

  5. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    182 citations

  6. University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    Greensboro, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    133 citations

  7. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    55 citations

  8. Universidad de Londres

    Mexico City, Mexico

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    64 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 92 publications · 9.8K citations

    50

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  2. African American Review

    AAR · 18 publications · 2.3K citations

    15

    h-index

  3. Theatre Journal

    14 publications · 492 citations

    13

    h-index

  4. Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory

    11 publications · 350 citations

    11

    h-index

  5. TDR/The Drama Review

    10 publications · 243 citations

    10

    h-index

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