Thulani Davis

Thulani Davis
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ụdịekerenwanyị Dezie
mba o sịNjikota Obodo Amerika Dezie
aha enyereThulani Dezie
aha ezinụlọ yaDavis Dezie
ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya19 Julaị 1949 Dezie
Ebe ọmụmụHampton Dezie
asụsụ ọ na-asụ, na-ede ma ọ bụ were na-ebinye akaBekee Dezie
ọrụ ọ na-arụode akwukwo ifo, librettist, odee uri, odee akwụkwọ, odee ejije Dezie
ebe agụmakwụkwọBarnard College, The Putney School Dezie
Archive naStuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library Dezie
Ihe nriteAmerican Book Awards, Black Literary Hall of Fame Dezie
Nwere ọrụ na mkpokọtaGivens Collection of African American Literature Dezie
ikike nwebiisinka dị ka onye okikeỌrụ nwebiisinka chekwara Dezie

Thulani Davis (amụrụ n'afọ 1949) bụ onye America na-ede egwuregwu, onye nta akụkọ, onye na-ede akwụkwọ, onye na'ede akwụkwọ akụkọ, onye edemede, na onye na-ese ihe nkiri.[1] Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Barnard College ma gaa ụlọ akwụkwọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ ma na Mahadum Pennsylvania na Mahadim Columbia.[2]

N'afọ 1992, Davis natara onyinye Grammy maka ihe ndekọ abọm ya na Aretha Franklin's Queen Of Soul ♡ The Atlantic Recordings, na-aghọ nwanyị mbụ natara onyinye a.[3][4] Ya na nwa nwanne nne ya, onye na-ede egwu Anthony Davis, arụkọwo ọrụ, na-ede akwụkwọ maka opera abụọ.

Davis dere maka Village Voice ruo ihe karịrị afọ iri, gụnyere obituary maka onye na-ede uri ibe ya na onye gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Barnard June Jordan.[2][3][5] Ọ bụ onye nduzi nye Greg Tate na-eto eto, tupu ọ pụta dị ka onye nta akụkọ nwere mmetụta na onye na-enyocha ọdịbendị.[6] Thulani Davis bụ onye ya na Ntozake Shange dịkọrọ ndụ ma na-arụkọ ọrụ.[7][8]

Akụkọ ndụ

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A mụrụ Thulani Davis n'aka ndị nkuzi Africa-America abụọ si Virginia, Willie ("Billie") Louise (née Barbour) Davis na Collis Huntington Davis, Sr. Davises bụ ndị a ma ama na Virginia na isiokwu nke akwụkwọ ya nke afọ 2006, My Confederate Kinfolk .[2][1]

Davis gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Putney School na 1966 wee gaa n'ihu na agụmakwụkwọ ya na Barnard College, ebe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ n'afọ 1970.[1] Davis gakwara ụlọ akwụkwọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Mahadum Pennsylvania na Mahadụ Columbia.[2] Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Barnard, Davis kwagara San Francisco, ebe ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye nta akụkọ maka San Francisco Sun-Reporter, na-akọ akụkọ akụkọ dịka ikpe Soledad Brothers na ikpe Angela Davis.[1][2]

Davis ghọrọ onye na-ede uri ma soro ọtụtụ ndị na-agụ egwú na ndị na-ede abụ rụọ ọrụ na San Francisco.[2] Ọ sonyekwara na Third World Artists Collective, na-arụkọ ọrụ na Ntozake Shange na ndị ọzọ.[1]

Davis laghachiri New York City n'afọ ndị 1970. N'ebe ahụ, o dere maka Village Voice ruo afọ iri na atọ, mesịa rụọ ọrụ ya iji jee ozi dị ka Onye isi nchịkọta akụkọ.[1][2]

N'afọ 1981, ọ kpọbatara enyi ezinụlọ na onye na-echebe Greg Tate na onye nchịkọta egwu The Village Voice Robert Christgau, onye gwara Tate ka ọ nye aka na Voice, ebe o guzobere onwe ya ngwa ngwa dị ka otu n'ime ndị nkatọ ọdịbendị nke ọgbọ ya.[6]

N'etiti afọ 1980, Davis na nwa nwanne ya nwoke, onye na-ede egwu Anthony Davis, rụkọtara ọrụ n'ịmepụta opera mbụ ha. O dere libretto maka X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X.

Ha abụọ jikọtara aka ọzọ na 1990s mgbe Davis dere libretto na Amistad (1997), nke mbụ nke Chicago Lyric Opera mepụtara.[1]

Tim Page nke The Washington Post chere na ọrụ ahụ furu ohere ụfọdụ. Ọ dabeere n'okwu ikpe nke nnupụisi ohu doro anya na ụgbọ mmiri Spanish, nke ruru Ụlọikpe Kasị Elu nke United States. Page dere,

"ihe omume ahụ bụ ihe atụ akụkọ ihe mere eme a nabatara nke United States na-akpa àgwà n'amamihe na ọmịiko n'ebe ndị na-enweghị enyemaka na ndị a na-emegbu emegbu nọ. A na-ekwuputa nke a n'ụzọ na-enweghị isi na nke a na-amaghị ama na opera ahụ, mana ọ dịghị ebe ọ bụla a na-ekwupụta ya n'ụzọ siri ike dị ka o kwesịrị, ọkachasị na ihe atụ niile na-adịghị mma nke ịkpa ókè agbụrụ ndị ọcha nke e gosipụtara n'uhuruchi ahụ. Iji kọwaa Walt Whitman, òtù abolitionist anọwo na-esi ísì, na-esi nri, na-esiri ike, ruo mgbe Amistad Rebellion mere ka ọ sie ike. "[9]

Amistad nwetara nnukwu mmezigharị na libretto na egwu na afọ 2008 maka mmepụta ọhụrụ na mmemme Spoleto USA. Opera Today kwuru na ọ bụ

"nke dị nnọọ obere, nke lekwasịrị anya karị ma dị irè karịa nke mbụ. N'ime nke a, ha {Davises] mepụtara ọ bụghị naanị ọrụ nka nke American opera, kamakwa ọrụ nke na-emegide ọhụụ nke oge a nke na-agba ọchịchịrị site na ịkpa ókè agbụrụ na-ada ụda taa karịa Memminger na Spoleto USA. "[10]

Mgbe ọ laghachiri New York City, Davis tinyekwara aka n'ịmepụta ihe nkiri na ihe nkiri dị egwu. Nwanne ya nwoke na-eme ihe nkiri, Collis Huntington Davis, Jr., mere ka ọ mata ndị ọzọ na-eme fim ojii. Ihe ngosi izizi ya na ya jikọtara na PBS.[2] Ọ na-aga n'ihu na-arụ ọrụ na ọrụ okike gụnyere opera, ihe nkiri, akwụkwọ akụkọ, na egwuregwu.

Davis bụ onye ụkọchukwu Buddha a họpụtara ahọpụta na òtù Jodo Shinshu.[11] Ya na di ya Joseph Jarman guzobere Brooklyn Buddhist Association.[3]

Ọrụ

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Akwụkwọ

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  • My Confederate Kinfolk (2006)
  • Onye Okike nke Ndị Nsọ (1996)
  • Malcolm X: Nnukwu Foto (1993)
  • 1959, akwụkwọ akụkọ (1992)
  • Egwuregwu Mgbanwe (1985)
  • All the Renegade Ghosts Rise (1978)

Egwuregwu

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  • The Souls of Black Folk (2003)
  • Everybody's Ruby: Akụkọ nke igbu ọchụ na Florida (1999)
  • Ava & Cat na Mexico (1994)
  • Ntinye, Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1990)
  • Ihe osise (1982)
  • Shadow & Veil, na Ntozake Shange, Jessica Hagedorn, Laurie Carlos, na ndị ọzọ (1982)
  • Okwu Na-atọ ụtọ na Ọchịchọ Na-adịghị Mma (1979)
  • Ebe Mississippi zutere Amazon, na Shange na Hagedorn (1977)

Ọrụ egwu

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  • Okporo ụzọ Ọchịchịrị (1998)
  • Amistad, ihe nkiri, libretto (1997/revised 2008)
  • Nwaanyị A Na-achọghị Mma (1994)
  • Baobab anọ (1994)
  • The E. & O. Line, ihe nkiri eletrọniki, libretto (1989)
  • X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X, ihe nkiri, libretto (1986)
  • X-cerpts (1987)
  • Steppin' Other Shores (1983)
  • Lee Tee's New Blues (1982)

Ihe nkiri

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Ihe nkiri

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  • Paid in Full, onye edemede (2002)
  • Onye na-emepụta Saints, onye na-emepụta (2010)

Ihe ndekọ na ndekọ

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  • Aga m eme ka m bụrụ ụwa: Black Creative Minds na narị afọ nke iri abụọ
  • W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices (1996)
  • Thulani Davis Ajụrụ, 'Gịnị mere Howard Beach?' (1988)
  • Thulani (19848)
  • Ntụgharị uche (2002)
  • The Musical Railism nke Anne LeBaron (1998)
  • Songposts, Mpịakọta nke 1 (1991)
  • Enweghị ókèala (1989)
  • Egwu maka ndị agha (1985)

Onyinye na mmata

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  • Onye mmeghe, The Leon Levy Center for Biography, City University of New York Graduate Center, 2008
  • Fellow, The Newington-Cropsey Foundation Academy of Art, 2007-08
  • Fellow, The Charles H. Revson Fellows Program on the Future of the City of New York na Mahadum Columbia, 2003
  • Gọvanọ Nebraska kwupụtara Admiral nke Great Navy nke Steeti Nebraska, 2004
  • The New York Coalition of One Hundred Black Women, First Annual Legacies Award, maka Ịnweta Ịdị Mma na Arts, 2003
  • Induction na Black Writers Hall of Fame, 1998
  • Onye isi oche Ralph Metcalfe, Mahadum Marquette, Milwaukee, 1998
  • Ihe nrite Paul Robeson Cultural Democracy, The Chicago Center for Arts Policy, 1998
  • David Randolph Onye na-eme ihe nkiri pụrụ iche, The New School, NY, 1998
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Onye na-ese ihe na-ebi, 1996
  • Onyinye Digest Writers nke Lila Wallace-Reader, 1996
  • PEW National Theatre Artist Residency Grant, 1993
  • Grammy Award, Best Album Notes, Aretha Franklin, "The Atlantic Recordings", 1993, nwanyị mbụ meriri na ngalaba
  • Grammy Nomination, Best New Work, Classical, "X, The Life & Times...," 1993
  • Ihe nrite Chicago Humanities Festival, 1992
  • New York Foundation for the Arts, The Gregory Millard Fellowship Award, Fiction, 1988
  • Ihe nrite onye isi ala Manhattan Borough, Ịdị Mma na nka na edemede, 1987
  • New York State Council on the Arts, Writer in Residency Award, 1987
  • Ihe nrite Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers College, Women's Center, 1987

Ihe odide

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Guide to the Davis Family Papers, 1876–2007 and undated, bulk 1924–2004. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Retrieved on 12 May 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Thulani Davis, a voice of the written word. African American Registry. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved on March 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Thulani Davis. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved on 4 March 2014.
  4. ↑ The GRAMMYs' Trailblazing Women, Part One. Retrieved on 12 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Davis (June 25, 2002). June Jordan, 1936–2002. Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2014-03-05. Retrieved on 4 March 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Risen (December 8, 2021). Greg Tate, Influential Critic of Black Culture, Dies at 64.
  7. ↑ "Thulani Davis by Stephanie Fleischmann", BOMB Magazine, Fall 1990.
  8. ↑ Black music / Ntozake Shange and Thulani Davis ; interviewed by Joan Thornell. Pacifica Radio Archives. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved on 4 March 2014.
  9. ↑ Page (1 December 1997). 'AMISTAD' MISSES THE BOAT. The Washington Post. Retrieved on 24 June 2019.
  10. ↑ "Revised Amistad makes its mark", Opera Today, May 2008; accessed 25 June 2019
  11. ↑ Masaoka. Rules of Engagement. San Francisco Bay Guardian. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved on 12 May 2014.

Ebe e si nweta ya

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