{"product_id":"angelas-mixtape-the-history-of-light-9781732545298","title":"Angela's Mixtape \/ The History of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eisa Davis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: 53rd State Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: 53rd State Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - African American \u0026amp; Black\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrained\u003cbr\u003e in classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hip \u003cbr\u003ehop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa \u003cbr\u003eDavis's plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis of \u003cbr\u003emusic alongside radical change. In \u003cem\u003eAngela's Mixtape\u003c\/em\u003e, time shifts like a mixtape, and like a mixtape, the play is both a memoir and a gift--for us, of course, and for Davis's aunt, activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis, under whose tutelage Davis reads \u003cem\u003eDas Kapital \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003elearns to drive stick and hack her own way toward inheriting her legacy. In \u003cem\u003eThe History of Light\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e Davis counterpoints the intertwining fates of two couples under \u003cbr\u003eracialized pressures a generation apart. Lush with the sound of the \u003cbr\u003egrand piano, \u003cem\u003eThe History of Light\u003c\/em\u003e is a study in black and \u003cbr\u003ewhite, love and alienation. Underlying the political clarity and formal \u003cbr\u003evirtuosity of Davis's writing are the unexpected crackles of a voice \u003cbr\u003ewarming up, the crunchiness of missed notes. Because for an artist \u003cbr\u003econcerned, like Davis, with how we become who we are and might be, error\u003cbr\u003e is a necessary instrument--maybe the sounding weight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"53rd State Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999496880279,"sku":"9781732545298","price":1188.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781732545298.webp?v=1783600819","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/angelas-mixtape-the-history-of-light-9781732545298","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}