African American Arts : : Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity / / Carrie Mae Weems; ed. by Sharrell D. Luckett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Weems, Carrie Mae,
• MitwirkendeR: Byrd, Rikki,; Caplan, Lucy,; Charlson, Doria E.,; Coles, Jasmine Eileen,; Coles, Jasmine,; Cornet, Florencia V.,; Dobson, Abby,; Gaskins, Nettrice R.,; Gillespie, Carmen,; Hinds, Rickerby,; Hyacinthe, Genevieve,; Johnson, Amber Lauren,; Johnson, Amber,; Johnson, Julie B.,; Kinsey, J . Michael,; Kinsey, J. Michael,; Luckett, Sharrell D.,; McCalla, Sammantha,; McNeil, Daniel,; Mccalla, Sammantha,; Mcneil, Daniel,; Moss-Bouldin, Shondrika,; Pettiford-Wates, Tawnya,; Weems, Carrie Mae,
• HerausgeberIn: Luckett, Sharrell D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: The Griot Project Book Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 15 color images, 1 b-w total

Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, this anthology explores the rol...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• SERIES EDITOR FOREWORD
• VISUAL FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION African American Arts in Action
• Part 1 BODIES OF ACTIVISM
• 1 • TRANS IDENTITY AS EMBODIED AFROFUTURISM
• 2 • DESIGNING OUR FREEDOM Toward a New Discourse on Fashion as a Strategy for Self-Liberation
• 3 • PEARL PRIMUS’S CHOREO-ACTIVISM 1943–1949
• 4 • PERFORMING NEW NATIONALISM/ PERFORMING A LIVING CULTURE Josefina Báez’s Dominicanish¹
• 5 • ETHNICITY, ETHICALNESS, EXCELLENCE Armond White’s All-American Humanism
• 6 • RACE AND HISTORY ON THE OPERATIC STAGE Caterina Jarboro Sings Aida
• Part 2 MUSIC AND VISUAL ART AS ACTIVISM
• 7 • “I AM BASQUIAT” Tracing Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Alterity and Activism in Paint and Performance
• 8 • “I LUH GOD” Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel, and the Moral Mask of Language Discrimination
• 9 • THE HIDDEN CODE OF THE KONGO COSMOGRAM IN AFRICAN AMERICAN ART AND CULTURE
• 10 • FROM BALDWIN TO BEYONCÉ Exploring the Responsibility of the Artist in Society— Re-envisioning the Black Female Sonic Artist as Citizen
• 11 • SLAYING “FORMATION” A Queering of Black Radical Tradition
• Part 3 INSTITUTIONS OF ACTIVISM
• 12 • CENTERING BLACKNESS THROUGH PERFORMANCE IN EVERY 28 HOURS
• 13 • DANCING FOR JUSTICE PHILADELPHIA Embodiment, Dance, and Social Change
• 14 • A CONVERSATION WITH FREDDIE HENDRICKS OF THE FREDDIE HENDRICKS YOUTH ENSEMBLE OF ATLANTA
• 15 • THE CONCILIATION PROJECT AS A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT Behind the Mask of Uncle Tom-ism and the Performance of Blackness
• BLACKBALLIN’ A Play
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX