
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Making Hip Hop Theatre is the essential, practical guide to making hip-hop theatre. It features detailed techniques and exercises that can guide creatives from workshops through to staging a performance. If you were inspired by Hamilton, Barber Shop Chronicles, Misty, Black Men Walking or Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster, this is the book for you. Covering vocal technique, use of equipment, mixing, looping, sampling, working with venues and dealing with creative challenges, this book is a bible for both new and experienced artists alike. Additionally, with links to online video material demonstrating and elaborating on the exercises included, it offers countless useful tools for teachers and facilitators of drama, music and other creative arts. Alongside this practical guidance is an overview of hip hop history, giving theoretical and historical context for the practice. From documentation of Conrad Murray's major productions, to commentary from leading practitioners including Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens, David Jubb, Emma Rice, Tobi Kyeremateng and Paula Varjack, readers are treated to a detailed insight into the background of hip hop theatre. Edited by scholar Katie Beswick and genre pioneer Conrad Murray, Making Hip Hop Theatre is a vital teaching tool and provides a much-needed account of a burgeoning aspect of contemporary theatre culture.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- On collaboration and the voices in this book
- Our collaborators
- Why we wrote this
- Note from the authors
- Some introductions
- PART ONE Getting started
- Principles of hip hop
- Warm-ups
- Beatbox basics
- Progressing technique
- Equipment
- Online teaching platforms
- Further resources
- Ending sessions
- PART TWO Developing ideas and making a living
- Principles for working with . . .
- Stimulus and starting points
- Practical tips for starting a theatre career
- PART THREE How we made it
- Hitler Wrote 20 Pop Songs . . . Have You Heard Them?
- No Milk for the Foxes
- DenMarked
- High Rise eState of Mind
- Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster
- Against ‘spoken word’!
- Index
- Copyright