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The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, James Edward Smethurst

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Summary
Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the United States through its negotiations of the ideological climate of the Cold War, decolonization, and the civil rights movement. Taking a regional approach, Smethurst examines local expressions of the nascent Black Arts Movement, a movement distinctive in its geographical reach and diversity, while always keeping the frame of the larger movement in view. The Black Arts Movement, he argues, fundamentally changed American attitudes about the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and dramatically transformed the landscape of public funding for the arts
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xv, 471 p.
Contents
  • Foreground and underground : the Left, nationalism, and the origins of the Black arts matrix
  • Artists imagine the nation, the nation imagines art : the Black Arts Movement and popular culture, history, gender, performance, and textuality
  • New York altar city : New York, the Northeast, and the development of Black arts cadres and ideologies
  • Institutions for the people : Chicago, Detroit, and the Black Arts Movement in the Midwest
  • Bandung world : the West Coast, the Black Arts Movement, and the development of revolutionary nationalism, cultural nationalism, third worldism, and multiculturalism
  • Behold the land : regionalism, the Black nation, and the Black Arts Movement in the South
Isbn
9780807829349
Link
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004027170.html
Instance
Label
The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Title
The Black Arts Movement
Title remainder
literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Statement of responsibility
James Edward Smethurst
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the United States through its negotiations of the ideological climate of the Cold War, decolonization, and the civil rights movement. Taking a regional approach, Smethurst examines local expressions of the nascent Black Arts Movement, a movement distinctive in its geographical reach and diversity, while always keeping the frame of the larger movement in view. The Black Arts Movement, he argues, fundamentally changed American attitudes about the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and dramatically transformed the landscape of public funding for the arts
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
810.9/896073
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PS153.N5
LC item number
S56 2005
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Label
The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, James Edward Smethurst
Link
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004027170.html
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-458) and index
Contents
Foreground and underground : the Left, nationalism, and the origins of the Black arts matrix -- Artists imagine the nation, the nation imagines art : the Black Arts Movement and popular culture, history, gender, performance, and textuality -- New York altar city : New York, the Northeast, and the development of Black arts cadres and ideologies -- Institutions for the people : Chicago, Detroit, and the Black Arts Movement in the Midwest -- Bandung world : the West Coast, the Black Arts Movement, and the development of revolutionary nationalism, cultural nationalism, third worldism, and multiculturalism -- Behold the land : regionalism, the Black nation, and the Black Arts Movement in the South
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
xv, 471 p.
Isbn
9780807829349
Isbn Type
(alk. paper)
Lccn
2004027170
Note
Spec. Coll. copy: Black cloth, stamped in red. Purchase, ESO WON Books, 2005.
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • (OCoLC)57002162
  • ucoclc57002162
Label
The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, James Edward Smethurst
Link
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004027170.html
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-458) and index
Contents
Foreground and underground : the Left, nationalism, and the origins of the Black arts matrix -- Artists imagine the nation, the nation imagines art : the Black Arts Movement and popular culture, history, gender, performance, and textuality -- New York altar city : New York, the Northeast, and the development of Black arts cadres and ideologies -- Institutions for the people : Chicago, Detroit, and the Black Arts Movement in the Midwest -- Bandung world : the West Coast, the Black Arts Movement, and the development of revolutionary nationalism, cultural nationalism, third worldism, and multiculturalism -- Behold the land : regionalism, the Black nation, and the Black Arts Movement in the South
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
xv, 471 p.
Isbn
9780807829349
Isbn Type
(alk. paper)
Lccn
2004027170
Note
Spec. Coll. copy: Black cloth, stamped in red. Purchase, ESO WON Books, 2005.
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • (OCoLC)57002162
  • ucoclc57002162

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