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New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement.

Collins, Lisa Gail.

New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement.

Collins, Lisa Gail.

9780813541075

Collins, Lisa Gail.

1 online resource (402 pages)

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 -- Chapter 6: A Black Mass as Black Gothic: Myth and Bioscience in Black Cultural Nationalism -- Chapter 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 -- Part III: Predecessors, Peers, and Legacies -- Chapter 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.

Afterword: This Bridge Called "Our Tradition": Notes on Blueblack, 'Round'midnight, Blacklight "Connection" -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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 anthology expands the scope of the movement by offering essays that explore the racial and sexual politics of the era, links with other period cultural movements, the arts in prison, the role of Black colleges and universities, gender politics and the rise of feminism, color fetishism, photography, music, and more. An invigorating look at a movement that has long begged for reexamination, this collection lucidly interprets the complex debates that surround this tumultuous era and demonstrates that the celebration of this movement need not be separated from its critique.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

African American arts -- 20th century.

Arts -- Political aspects -- United States.

Black Arts movement.

Electronic books.

Crawford, Margo Natalie.

Nelson, Alondra.

Jones, Kellie.

Smethurst, James.

Walters, Wendy.

Pollard, Cherise.

Duganne, Erina.

Collins, Lisa Gail.

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