Holiday, Harmony - Life of the Party

An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage. AN AVANT-GARDE COMBINATION of writing, scholarship, and visual art AUTHOR IS AN ACCLAIMED ARTIST AND WRITER who has recently produced her first solo museum exhibition. INCLUDES RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS which the author has discovered in her research. This book acts as a blueprint, a script, and a ledger for the exhibition as well as a stand-alone record of the territory it covers. Holiday retrieves a secret history of the gestures, murmurs, shouts and reversals that occur offstage and off the record. Colliding image, text and even audio (there will be an album accompaniment to the book ). Life of the Party reveals the backstage as by turns mundane, bulgar and glorious – a site of sacred ritual behind the spectacle of performance.