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African American arts : activism, aesthetics, and futurity /

"Signaling 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 r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: African-American Arts : Activism and Aesthetics (Conference)
Otros Autores: Luckett, Sharrell D. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2020]
Colección:Griot Project book series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series Editor Foreword / Carmen Gillespie
  • Visual Foreword / Carrie Mae Weems
  • Introduction: African American Arts in Action / Sharrell D. Luckett
  • Part I: Bodies of Activism.
  • Trans Identity as Embodied Afrofuturism / Amber Johnson
  • Designing Our Freedom: Toward a New Discourse on Fashion as a Strategy for Self-Liberation / Rikki Byrd
  • Pearl Primus's Choreo-Activism: 1943-1949 / Doria E. Charlson
  • Performing New Nationalism/Performing a Living Culture: Josefina Báez's Dominicanish / Florencia V. Cornet
  • Ethnicity, Ethicalness, Excellence: Armond White's All-American Humanism / Daniel McNeil
  • Race and History on the Operatic Stage: Caterina jarboro Sings Aida / Lucy Caplan
  • Part II: Music and Visual Art as Activism.
  • "I Am Basquiat": Tracing Jean-Michel Basquiat's Alterity and Activism in Paint and Performance / Genevieve Hyacinthe
  • "I Luh God" : Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel and the Moral Mask of Language Discrimination / Sammantha McCalla
  • The Hidden Code of the Kongo Cosmogram in African American Art and Culture / Nettrice R. Gaskins
  • From Baldwin to Beyoncé: Exploring the Responsibility of the Artist in Society---Re-envisioning the Black Female Sonic Artist as Citizen / Abby Dobson
  • Slaying "Formation": A Queering of Black Radical Tradition / J. Michael Kinsey
  • Part III: Institutions of Activism.
  • Centering Blackness through Performance in Every 28 Hours / Shondrika Moss-Bouldin
  • Dancing for Justice Philadelphia: Embodiment, Dance, and Social Change / Julie B. Johnson
  • A conversation with Freddie Hendricks of the Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta / Sharrell D. Luckett
  • The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment : Behind the Mask of Uncle Tom-ism and the Performance of Blackness / Jasmine Coles & Tawnya Pettiford-Wates
  • Afterword: Blackballin' : a Play / by Rickerby Hinds.