Angela's Mixtape / The History of Light

Title: Angela's Mixtape / The History of Light
Author: Eisa Davis
ISBN: 9781732545298
Publisher: 53rd State Press
Published: 2024
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 225
Publisher Description: <p>Trained<br> in classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hip <br>hop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa <br>Davis's plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis of <br>music alongside radical change. In <em>Angela's Mixtape</em>, 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 <em>Das Kapital </em>and<em> </em>learns to drive stick and hack her own way toward inheriting her legacy. In <em>The History of Light</em>, <br> Davis counterpoints the intertwining fates of two couples under <br>racialized pressures a generation apart. Lush with the sound of the <br>grand piano, <em>The History of Light</em> is a study in black and <br>white, love and alienation. Underlying the political clarity and formal <br>virtuosity of Davis's writing are the unexpected crackles of a voice <br>warming up, the crunchiness of missed notes. Because for an artist <br>concerned, like Davis, with how we become who we are and might be, error<br> is a necessary instrument--maybe the sounding weight.</p>