{"product_id":"9781732545298","title":"Angela's Mixtape \/ The History of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTrained\n in classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hip \nhop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa \nDavis’s plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis of \nmusic alongside radical change. In \u003cem\u003eAngela's Mixtape\u003c\/em\u003e, time shifts like a mixtape, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand like a mixtape, the play is both a memoir and a gift—for us, of course, and for Davis’s aunt,\u003cspan\u003e 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,\n Davis counterpoints the intertwining fates of two couples under \nracialized pressures a generation apart. Lush with the sound of the \ngrand piano, \u003cem\u003eThe History of Light\u003c\/em\u003e is a study in black and \nwhite, love and alienation. Underlying the political clarity and formal \nvirtuosity of Davis’s writing are the unexpected crackles of a voice \nwarming up, the crunchiness of missed notes. Because for an artist \nconcerned, like Davis, with how we become who we are and might be, error\n is a necessary instrument—maybe the sounding weight.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eisa Davis","offers":[{"title":"Theatre Communications Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-11-03","offer_id":44230084296959,"sku":"9781732545298","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_389eddac-0dbb-424a-a07e-71e587e1125e.jpg?v=1700682077","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781732545298","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}