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African American arts : activism, aesthetics, and futurity
Title
African American arts : activism, aesthetics, and futurity / edited by Sharrell D. Luckett.
ISBN
9781684481521
168448152X
9781684481538
1684481538
Publication
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2020]
Physical Description
xiii, 323 pages : illustrations in color ; 26 cm.
Notes
Essays and presentations primarily prepared for The Griot Institute for Africana Studies' convening on African-American art, activism, and aesthetics held in fall 2016 at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 22, 2020
Series
The Griot project
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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African-American Arts : Activism and Aesthetics (Conference) (2016 : Bucknell University)
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