Behold the Land (eBook)

The Black Arts Movement in the South

James Smethurst (Autor)

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2021
244 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-6305-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In the mid-1960s, African American artists and intellectuals formed the Black Arts movement in tandem with the Black Power movement, with creative luminaries like Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Cade Bambara, and Gil Scott-Heron among their number. In this follow-up to his award-winning history of the movement nationally, James Smethurst investigates the origins, development, maturation, and decline of the vital but under-studied Black Arts movement in the South from the 1960s until the early 1980s. Traveling across the South, he chronicles the movement's radical roots, its ties to interracial civil rights organizations on the Gulf Coast, and how it thrived on college campuses and in southern cities. He traces the movement's growing political power as well as its disruptive use of literature and performance to advance Black civil rights.Though recognition of its influence has waned, the Black Arts movement's legacy in the South endures through many of its initiatives and constituencies. Ultimately, Smethurst argues that the movement's southern strain was perhaps the most consequential, successfully reaching the grassroots and leaving a tangible, local legacy unmatched anywhere else in the United States.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.6.2021
• Reihe/Serie: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 7 halftones
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American cultural history • Black Arts and electoral politics • Black Arts and urban geography • Black Arts Movement in the South • Black Studies Movement • Black Studies Movement Neighborhood Arts Center • BLKARTSOUTH • Free Southern Theater • Historically Black Colleges and Universities • Neighborhood Arts Center • public art in the South • Southern Black Cultural Alliance
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-6305-8 / 1469663058
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-6305-0 / 9781469663050