| Description | This subseries is a collection of promotional material, including flyers, leaflets, posters, programmes, information packs, press releases, publications, and in the case of Kokuma Performing Arts company, some organisational papers.
The subseries is divided into 3 main sections:
/1 Dance.
/2 Music.
/3 Theatre.
These sections are then divided into sub genres according to music, dance or theatre styles, cultures and themes. Reflecting much of Burke's collecting, the bulk of material centres around the performance art activities of the black community.
In the 'Dance' sub section (/1), the majority of the material is collected around black dance companies that mainly perform in African, or African Caribbean dance.
The 'Music' sub section (/2) is divided generally into musical genres, containing promotional materials, the bulk of which reflects the activities of the Reggae music performance scene in Birmingham. There is material also reflecting the musical performance of other genres of music, including African, Jazz and Asian music, among others.
Again, within the 'Theatre' subsection (/3), the majority of the material is collected from productions and performances of black theatre companies in African style performance of folk tales, or comedy theatre in a Jamaican tradition, as well as general and modern Black British theatre. This subsection does contain a series of 'other' theatre styles, including 'Musical Theatre', 'Asian Theatre', as well as 'Community and Amateur Theatre' among some others.
This collection of material, apart from a couple of exceptions, is largely visual, in that the majority of it is promotional material of productions and performances of the various companies in Birmingham, and so much of the material displays interesting art work as well as reflecting a view of the content and activities of the landscape of the black performing arts community over the period. |