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New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement

"New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement, true to its title, provides a bracing reconsideration of how political vision blended with aesthetic production to form a watershed moment in African American cultural history. Exploring a rich array of media, genres, artists, and thinkers, these essays together constitute an impressively vigorous call f... more »or continued revaluation of the Black Arts Movement as a gritty, nuanced, and still-influential period of black expressive ferment. A major contribution to African American and American cultural studies." Kimberly W. Benston, author of Performing Blackness "Like the Movement itself, this nicely illustrated collection reflects the energy, innovation, and commitment of its creators. Broad-based, historically grounded, and analytically engaging, this book is a most impressive contribution to Black Cultural Studies." William L. Van Deburg, author of New Day In Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975 New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement takes its place among a growing body of important scholarship that troubles simplistic caricatures of the black power era. Indeed, the complexities and nuances of the black arts movement are on full display. What a magnificent collection of essays!" Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Department of Religion, Princeton University During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture - which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement - has remained largely neglected by subsequent generations of critics. In this path-breaking and long overdue anthology, Lisa Gail Collins and Margo Natalie Crawford bring together seventeen original essays that uncover the rich complexity of this self-conscious cultural movement. New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement includes essays that reexamine well-known figures such as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, Betye Saar, Jeff Donaldson, and Haki Madhubuti. In addition, the anthology expands the scope of the movement by offering essays that explore the racial and sexual politics of the era, links with other period cultural movements, the arts in prison, the role of Black colleges and universities, gender politics and the rise of feminism, color fetishism, photography, music, and more. An invigorating look at a movement that has long begged for reexamination, this collection lucidly interprets the complex debates that surround this tumultuous era and demonstrates that the celebration of this movement need not be separated from its critique.

ISBN-13: 9780813536958
ISBN-10: 0813536952
Publication Date: 5/25/2006
Pages: 390
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Arts & Photography >> History & Criticism >> Regional >> African American
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