UMSL THEATRE PRESENTS "L-VIS LIVES!"
UMSL Theatre
presents
L-vis Lives!
December 1 3, 2017
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 2pm
Free Admission
FROM THE POET the Chicago Tribune calls the new voice of Chicago, comes L-vis Lives!, a bold new collection of poetry and prose exploring the collision of race, art, and appropriation in American culture.
L-vis is an imagined persona, a representation of artists who have used and misused Black music. Like so many others who gained fame and fortune from their sampling, L-vis is as much a sincere artist as he is a thief. In Kevin Covals poems, L-vis story is equal parts forgotten history, autobiography, and re-imaginings. We see shades of Elvis Presley, the Beastie Boys, and Eminem, and meet some of historys more obscure whiteboy heroes and anti-heroes: legendary breakdancers, political activists, and music impresarios.
A story of both artistic theft and radical invention, L-vis Lives! is a poetic novella on all of the possibilities and problems of post-racial American culturewhere Black art is still at times only fully accepted in a white face, and every once in a while an L-vis comes along to step in to the void.
Event Properties
Event Date | 12-02-2017 7:30 pm |
Location | Kranzberg Arts Center |