Kristin Moriah
Biographic Data
| ID | 846668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Moriah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Moriah |
| SIGNATURE | MORIAH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0395-1042 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Strategies for Liberation: A Conversation with Katherine McKittrick
This is an interview with Katherine McKittrick, Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists program. McKittrick discusses Demonic Grounds , her pathbreaking study of Black women's geographies, on the advent of the twentieth anniversary of its publication
Playing That Crystal Flute: Black Interventions in the Sonic Archives
Playing That Crystal Flute:Black Interventions in the Sonic Archives Kristin Moriah (bio) Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. By Daphne Brooks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 608 pages. $39.95 (hardcover). Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll. By Maureen Mahon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 408 pages. $29.95 (paperback). Black Ephemera: The Crisis and …
On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes
In this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America's first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. According to clippings that she provided to African American newspapers, the singer performed at the r…
A Rude Sound: Notes on Suck Teeth Compositions
What does Black Canada sound like, and how has this sound been perceived? What does performance and art have to do with it? This article examines the use of sound in performative critiques of anti-Blackness and suggests that sounding and listening are vital strategies in the struggle for racial justice in Canada. I draw on Black feminist cultural criticism and art, linguistics, and sound studies to reveal the how sucking teeth defines Black Canad…
A Greater Compass of Voice: Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Mary Ann Shadd Cary Navigate Black Performance
The work of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Mary Ann Shadd Cary demonstrate how racial solidarity between Black Canadians and African Americans was created through performance and surpassed national boundaries during the nineteenth century. Taylor Greenfield's connection to Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the prominent feminist abolitionist, and the first Black woman to publish a newspaper in North America, reveals the centrality of peripatetic Black perfor…
Familiar by Danai Gurira
Reviewed by: Familiar by Danai Gurira Kristin Moriah FAMILIAR. By Danai Gurira. Directed by Taibi Magar. The McGuire Proscenium Stage at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis. March 30, 2018. The Midwest premiere of Familiar at the Guthrie Theatre was a homecoming for Danai Gurira, who experienced a surge in pop culture recognition in 2018 for her role in the film Black Panther. Of course, to many, Gurira is first and foremost a playwright and stage a…
The sonic color line: Race & the Cultural Politics of Listening
What does a runaway slave sound like? In the Sonic Color Line, Jennifer Lynn Stoever contends that such imagined sound became associated with blackness in the ears of white listeners in the mid-nin
Shuffle and Repeat: A Review of George C. Wolfe’s Shuffle Along
Shuffle and Repeat: A Review of George C. Wolfe's Shuffle Along Kristin Moriah (bio) Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. Music Box Theatre, New York, April 28, 2016–July 24, 2016. Directed by George C. Wolfe. The first act of Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 ends on a note of joyful expectation (fig. 1). By that time, the show's creators and performers have paid their d…
Notes from the Field by Anna Deavere Smith
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Identity
Reviewed by: Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Identity Kristin Moriah (bio) Miller, Monica L. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Identity. Durham: Duke UP, 2009. Monica Miller claims that the history of black dandyism is virtually unknown in spite of the fact that its traces surround us. Black bodies' ability to contain and confront the ethos of key cultural moments and the attendant complex relat…
A Greater Compass of Voice: Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Mary Ann Shadd Cary Navigate Black Performance
The work of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Mary Ann Shadd Cary demonstrate how racial solidarity between Black Canadians and African Americans was created through performance and surpassed national boundaries during the nineteenth century. Taylor Greenfield's connection to Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the prominent feminist abolitionist, and the first Black woman to publish a newspaper in North America, reveals the centrality of peripatetic Black perfor…
The sonic color line: Race & the Cultural Politics of Listening
What does a runaway slave sound like? In the Sonic Color Line, Jennifer Lynn Stoever contends that such imagined sound became associated with blackness in the ears of white listeners in the mid-nin
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Identity
Reviewed by: Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Identity Kristin Moriah (bio) Miller, Monica L. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Identity. Durham: Duke UP, 2009. Monica Miller claims that the history of black dandyism is virtually unknown in spite of the fact that its traces surround us. Black bodies' ability to contain and confront the ethos of key cultural moments and the attendant complex relat…
Shuffle and Repeat: A Review of George C. Wolfe’s Shuffle Along
Shuffle and Repeat: A Review of George C. Wolfe's Shuffle Along Kristin Moriah (bio) Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. Music Box Theatre, New York, April 28, 2016–July 24, 2016. Directed by George C. Wolfe. The first act of Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 ends on a note of joyful expectation (fig. 1). By that time, the show's creators and performers have paid their d…
Notes from the Field by Anna Deavere Smith
The sonic color line: Race & the Cultural Politics of Listening
What does a runaway slave sound like? In the Sonic Color Line, Jennifer Lynn Stoever contends that such imagined sound became associated with blackness in the ears of white listeners in the mid-nin
Familiar by Danai Gurira
Reviewed by: Familiar by Danai Gurira Kristin Moriah FAMILIAR. By Danai Gurira. Directed by Taibi Magar. The McGuire Proscenium Stage at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis. March 30, 2018. The Midwest premiere of Familiar at the Guthrie Theatre was a homecoming for Danai Gurira, who experienced a surge in pop culture recognition in 2018 for her role in the film Black Panther. Of course, to many, Gurira is first and foremost a playwright and stage a…
A Rude Sound: Notes on Suck Teeth Compositions
What does Black Canada sound like, and how has this sound been perceived? What does performance and art have to do with it? This article examines the use of sound in performative critiques of anti-Blackness and suggests that sounding and listening are vital strategies in the struggle for racial justice in Canada. I draw on Black feminist cultural criticism and art, linguistics, and sound studies to reveal the how sucking teeth defines Black Canad…
A Greater Compass of Voice: Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Mary Ann Shadd Cary Navigate Black Performance
The work of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Mary Ann Shadd Cary demonstrate how racial solidarity between Black Canadians and African Americans was created through performance and surpassed national boundaries during the nineteenth century. Taylor Greenfield's connection to Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the prominent feminist abolitionist, and the first Black woman to publish a newspaper in North America, reveals the centrality of peripatetic Black perfor…
On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes
In this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America's first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. According to clippings that she provided to African American newspapers, the singer performed at the r…
Playing That Crystal Flute: Black Interventions in the Sonic Archives
Playing That Crystal Flute:Black Interventions in the Sonic Archives Kristin Moriah (bio) Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. By Daphne Brooks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 608 pages. $39.95 (hardcover). Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll. By Maureen Mahon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 408 pages. $29.95 (paperback). Black Ephemera: The Crisis and …
Strategies for Liberation: A Conversation with Katherine McKittrick
This is an interview with Katherine McKittrick, Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists program. McKittrick discusses Demonic Grounds , her pathbreaking study of Black women's geographies, on the advent of the twentieth anniversary of its publication
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