Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 390 p)
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ill., map
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26 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0813536952
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0813536944
Content:
During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture-which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement-has remained largely neglected by subsequent generations of critics. New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement includes essays that reexamine well-known figures such as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, Betye Saar, Jeff Donaldson, and Haki Madhubuti. In addition, the a
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Power to the People!: The Art of Black Power; Part I: Cities and Sites; Chapter 1: Black Light on the Wall of Respect: The Chicago Black Arts Movement; Chapter 2: Black West, Thoughts on Art in Los Angeles; Chapter 3: The Black Arts Movement and Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Chapter 4: A Question of Relevancy: New York Museums and the Black Arts Movement, 1968-1971; Chapter 5: Blackness in Present Future Tense: Broadside Press, Motown Records, and Detroit Techno; Part II: Genres and Ideologies
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Chapter 6: A Black Mass as Black Gothic: Myth and Bioscience in Black Cultural NationalismChapter 7: Natural Black Beauty and Black Drag; Chapter 8: Sexual Subversions, Political Inversions: Women's Poetry and the Politics of the Black Arts Movement; Chapter 9: Transcending the Fixity of Race: The Kamoinge Workshop and the Question of a "Black Aesthetic" in Photography; Chapter 10: Moneta Sleet, Jr. as Active Participant: The Selma March and the Black Arts Movement; Chapter 11: "If Bessie Smith Had Killed Some White People": Racial Legacies, the Blues Revival, and the Black Arts Movement
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Part III: Predecessors, Peers, and LegaciesChapter 12: A Familiar Strangeness: The Spectre of Whiteness in the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement; Chapter 13: The Art of Transformation: Parallels in the Black Arts and Feminist Art Movements; Chpater 14: Prison Writers and the Black Arts Movement; Chapter 15: "To Make a Poet Black": Canonizing Puerto Rican Poets in the Black Arts Movement; Chapter 16: Latin Soul: Cross-Cultural Connections between the Black Arts Movement and Pocho-Che; Chapter 17: Black Arts to Def Jam: Performing Black "Spirit Work" across Generations
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Afterword: This Bridge Called "Our Tradition": Notes on Blueblack, 'Round'midnight, Blacklight "Connection"Notes on Contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813536941
Additional Edition:
Print version New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement
Language:
English
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