{"product_id":"angelas-mixtape-the-history-of-light-by-eisa-davis-9781732545298","title":"Angela's Mixtape \/ The History of Light","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrained in classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hip hop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis's plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis of music alongside radical change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAngela's Mixtape\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eDas Kapital\u003c\/em\u003e and learns to drive stick and hack her own way toward inheriting her legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe History of Light\u003c\/em\u003e, Davis counterpoints the intertwining fates of two couples under racialized pressures a generation apart. Lush with the sound of the grand piano, \u003cem\u003eThe History of Light\u003c\/em\u003e is a study in black and white, love and alienation. Underlying the political clarity and formal virtuosity of Davis's writing are the unexpected crackles of a voice warming up, the crunchiness of missed notes. Because for an artist concerned, like Davis, with how we become who we are and might be, error is a necessary instrument—maybe the sounding weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470046150892,"sku":"9781732545298","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781732545298-angela-s-mixtape-the-history-of-light.jpg?v=1775209083","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/angelas-mixtape-the-history-of-light-by-eisa-davis-9781732545298","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}