https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/0aace93cb3598cb2b3c9e6086f3eef85.pdf 46c067e9af6d7d38429624c5c4cff470 PDF Text Text M4;4 ~1117 uf ldo DRUMVOICES: THE MISSION OF AFRO-AMERICAN POETRY CAST Director/Producer: EUGENE REDMOND Narrator: TOMMIE ELLIS Chorus: KEITH JEFFERSON DEBORAH SLIM CHAMBERS CLIFTON WATSON RAMONA OWEN AHAJI UMBUDI 11 11 Musicians: IKE PAGGITT SELWYN JONES Dancers: PAM KAY LILLIE SAWYER JAMES WHEATLEY PH I LLI P WATSON Choreographer: ELAINE DRUMVOICES is a confluence of several fonns of theater under the heading of ritual ballet. It employs elements of traditional African and European drama as well as indigenous Afro-American ritual. Grounded in the concept of the African continuum, it was first developed as a teaching and performing vehicle. As a production, DRUMVOICES was first staged in 1976, but conceptually speaking, it represents the culmination of fifteen years of active research and work with anthropologists, composers, folklorists, poets, dancers, choreographers and philosophers. One peak in this long process was the publication, in 1976 1 of Eugene Redmond's DRUMVOICES, a critical history of Afro-American poetry. The production tonight explores the technical and thematic history of Afro-American written and oral poetry. The written fonns ar,e drawn from colonial America to the present; the oral fonns are assembled from African beginnings down to today. DRUMVOICES is presented at the University of California, Davis, by the AfroAmerican Studies Program, the Department of English, and the Committee on Arts and Lectures, under a grant by the Graduate Division. (M]V.l � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eugene B. Redmond Digital Collection Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EBRWritings_09_37 Title A name given to the resource Cast and description of Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry, A Readers Theatre/Ritual Drama, May 8, 1977 Description An account of the resource Cast and description of Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry, A Readers Theatre/Ritual Drama, May 8, 1977 at UC-Davis. Relation A related resource Eugene B. Redmond Digital Collection Language A language of the resource English Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource For digital rights and permissions, see <a href="https://www.siue.edu/lovejoy-library/about/policies.shtml">https://www.siue.edu/lovejoy-library/about/policies.shtml</a> or contact <a href="mailto:library@siue.edu">library@siue.edu</a> for direct inquiries. In copyright. <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Redmond, Eugene B. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5/8/77