Despite being hailed as August Wilson’s “most structurally conservative work . . . modeled on the well-made play” (Savran 20), the plot of Fences signifies on a Yorùbá concept of measuring time, the Kójódá, and thus, the play has an Ethnocultural Dramatic Structure. Within an EDS framework the usual posts along which well-made plays are developed—exposition, inciting incident, climax, falling action, and resolution—are influenced by and/or at times, wholly subordinate to the African cultural and/or temporal signifiers of the racial or ethnic group at the center of the text. In this fashion, Wilson dramatically treats the experiences of Black Americans, with full cognizance of Western formulaic constructions in playwriting, yet the social behaviors of his characters and his plotlines are propelled by identifiable diasporic formations of indigenous African practices and concepts.
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Students of August Wilson’s play have heretofore focused almost exclusively on the title song and have thus not heard that the plot actually revolves around an auricular imperative set forth by another tune recorded at the session, “Hear Me Talking to You.” Its rehearsal and recording augur that the deadly violence is ultimately propelled by a failure to listen much more so than by the racial exigencies of America’s Jazz Age. Unlike the solitary act of writing, collective music-making depends crucially on aural connectivity—just as actors on stage must also listen to each other. This auricular imperative, then, is also an ethical one as it demands an openness and receptiveness to the story of the other. In music, especially in improvised music, self-actualization is subject to an ethics of responsible listening: successful music-making therefore comes with an interpersonal accountability to the sonorities of the others’ stories. Combining the two defining blues tropes of travel and of love gone wrong, the auricular imperative issued by “Hear Me Talking to You” applies to Ma Rainey, the Mother of the Blues, as much as to Levee Green, the young, upstart jazz modernist. Hence, Wilson’s play dramatizes listening as a profoundly ethical act, a paramount act whose obviation can bring tragic consequences. Ironically, George C. Wolfe’s cinematographic transposition of the play mutes the auricular imperative, returning the characters to the same old spiraling groove of the American race “record” instead of ending, as Wilson’s script does, on the self-actualizing potential inherent in musical improvisation.
到目前为止，奥古斯特·威尔逊戏剧的学生们几乎只关注主打歌，因此没有听说情节实际上是围绕着另一个在会议上录制的曲调“听我对你说话”所提出的听觉命令展开的。它的排练和录音预示着致命的暴力最终是由于未能倾听，而不是美国爵士时代的种族紧急情况。与单独的写作行为不同，集体音乐创作主要依赖于听觉上的联系——就像舞台上的演员也必须互相倾听一样。因此，这种听觉上的命令也是一种伦理命令，因为它要求对他人的故事持开放和接受的态度。在音乐中，特别是在即兴音乐中，自我实现受制于负责任倾听的伦理:因此，成功的音乐制作伴随着对他人故事的声音的人际责任。《听我对你说话》结合了蓝调音乐中旅行和爱情出错这两种典型的比喻，这首歌所发出的声音既适用于蓝调之母玛·雷尼(Ma Rainey)，也适用于年轻的爵士现代主义新贵李维·格林(Levee Green)。因此，威尔逊的戏剧将倾听戏剧化为一种深刻的道德行为，一种至高无上的行为，它的回避会带来悲惨的后果。具有讽刺意味的是，乔治·c·沃尔夫(George C. Wolfe)对这部戏剧的电影转换，使听觉上的必要性变得沉默，使人物回到了美国种族“记录”中同样古老的螺旋槽，而不是像威尔逊的剧本那样，在音乐即兴创作中固有的自我实现潜力上结束。
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August Wilson Journal editors Christopher B. Bell and Ladrica Menson-Furr interviewed Johannes Feest via Zoom about his research into August Wilson’s father Frederick “Fritz” Kittel. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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{"title":"Updates from the August Wilson Archive at Pitt Library System","authors":"Leah Mickens, W. Daw","doi":"10.5195/awj.2022.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/awj.2022.81","url":null,"abstract":"Dr. Leah Mickens and William Daw provide an update on the August Wilson Archive acquired by the University of Pittsburgh in the fall of 2020. ","PeriodicalId":143529,"journal":{"name":"August Wilson Journal","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122828393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article Saunders, Skyler. "Unlocked Minds: August Wilson’s Suspects, Ex-Cons, or Soon-to-Be Convicted Characters in his American Century Cycle." August Wilson Journal [Online], 2 (2020): https://doi.org.10.5195/awj.2020.55 contained several errors in the original publication. The original version has been updated to reflect the following changes: On page 1, the following sentence has been removed: “Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.” The Black Lives Matter group is not about individual rights but is run by Marxists. The error was introduced by the editorial board. On page 3, the following section has been removed: “As of this writing, Blacks make up about 2.3 million of the 6.8 million or about 34% of incarcerated individuals, according to the NAACP. Former president of this organization Benjamin Jealous said, “Our country has five percent of the world's people and 25 percent of the world's prisoners. Now, you can flip that a different way, a Black person today in this country is more likely to be incarcerated than a Black person in South Africa at the height of apartheid” (NAACP)”. There are in fact not 6.8 million incarcerated people in the US. There are actually 2.3 million people behind bars. The error was introduced by the author.
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A stage review of Fences by August Wilson, staged by the Chattanooga Theatre Centre in Chattanooga, Tennessee from Friday, February 15 through Saturday, March 9, 2019.
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David Drexler of KSDS-FM San Diego interviews Dr. Michael Downing, editor of the August Wilson Journal, about Wilson's play, "Jitney," which was staged January 18 through February 23, 2020 at the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage, Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.
圣地亚哥ksd - fm的大卫·德雷克斯勒就威尔逊的戏剧《Jitney》采访了《August Wilson Journal》的编辑迈克尔·唐宁博士，该剧于2020年1月18日至2月23日在圣地亚哥老环球剧院唐纳德和达琳·希利舞台上演。
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{"title":"Stage Review of Arden Theatre’s Production of Gem of the Ocean","authors":"E. Bonds","doi":"10.5195/awj.2020.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/awj.2020.45","url":null,"abstract":"A review of the Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson, staged at Arden Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from February 28 through March 31, 2019.","PeriodicalId":143529,"journal":{"name":"August Wilson Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114344021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In Ridley, Leticia. "Stage Review of Gem of the Ocean." August Wilson Journal doi:https://doi.org/10.5195.awj.2019.22, author Leticia Ridley’s credentials were updated from master’s candidate to doctoral candidate.
在雷德利，莱蒂西亚。《海洋宝石》剧评August Wilson Journal doi:https://doi.org/10.5195.awj.2019.22，作者Leticia Ridley的证书从硕士候选人更新为博士候选人。
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In Addington, Thomas. "Bibliography for August Wilson Journal: Spring 2019." August Wilson Journal doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/awj/2019.28, author "Thomas Addington" was changed to "Thom C. Addington.”
在艾丁顿，托马斯。《August Wilson Journal参考书目:2019年春季》August Wilson Journal doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/awj/2019.28，作者“Thomas Addington”改为“Thom C. Addington”。
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