New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement / / ed. by Lisa Gail Collins, Margo Natalie Crawford.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Houston A.,; Bernard, Emily,; Bernstein, Lee,; Collins, Lisa Gail,; Crawford, Margo Natalie,; Duganne, Erina,; Gussow, Adam,; Hernandez, Rod,; Jones, Kellie,; Lennon, Mary Ellen,; Nelson, Alondra,; Pollard, Cherise A.,; Smethurst, James,; Smith, Cherise,; Smith, Lorrie,; Walters, Wendy S.,; Wilkinson, Michelle Joan,
• TeilnehmendeR: Baker, Houston.; Bernard, Emily.; Bernstein, Lee.; Collins, Lisa Gail.; Crawford, Margo Natalie.; Duganne, Erina.; Gussow, Adam.; Hernandez, Rod.; Jones, Kellie.; Lennon, Mary Ellen.; Nelson, Alondra.; Pollard, Cherise.; Smethurst, James.; Smith, Cherise.; Smith, Lorrie.; Walters, Wendy.; Wilkinson, Michelle Joan.
• HerausgeberIn: Collins, Lisa Gail,; Crawford, Margo Natalie,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (406 p.) :; 43 illustrations

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-...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Power to the People!: The Art of Black Power
• I. CITIES AND SITES
• 1. Black Light on the Wall of Respect: The Chicago Black Arts Movement
• 2. Black West, Thoughts on Art in Los Angeles
• 3. The Black Arts Movement and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• 4. A Question of Relevancy: New York Museums and the Black Arts Movement, 1968-1971
• 5. Blackness in Present Future Tense: Broadside Press, Motown Records, and Detroit Techno
• II. GENRES AND IDEOLOGIES
• 6. A Black Mass as Black Gothic: Myth and Bioscience in Black Cultural Nationalism
• 7. Natural Black Beauty and Black Drag
• 8. Sexual Subversions, Political Inversions: Women's Poetry and the Politics of the Black Arts Movement
• 9. Transcending the Fixity of Race: The Kamoinge Workshop and the Question of a "Black Aesthetic" in Photography
• 10. Moneta Sleet, Jr. as Active Participant: The Selma March and the Black Arts Movement
• 11. "If Bessie Smith Had Killed Some White People": Racial Legacies, the Blues Revival, and the Black Arts Movement
• III. PREDECESSORS, PEERS, AND LEGACIES
• 12. A Familiar Strangeness: The Spectre of Whiteness in the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement
• 13. The Art of Transformation: Parallels in the Black Arts and Feminist Art Movements
• 14. Prison Writers and the Black Arts Movement
• 15. "To Make a Poet Black": Canonizing Puerto Rican Poets in the Black Arts Movement
• 16. Latin Soul: Cross-Cultural Connections between the Black Arts Movement and Pocho-Che
• 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