African American arts : activism, aesthetics, and futurity

著者

• Luckett, Sharrell D.
• Weems, Carrie Mae

書誌事項

African American arts : activism, aesthetics, and futurity

edited by Sharrell D. Luckett ; [visual foreword by Carrie Mae Weems]

（The Griot Project book series / series editor, Carmen Gillespie）

Bucknell University Press, c2020

• : pbk

注記

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

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monae, 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 role of African American arts in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we might take in honoring and protecting the success of African Americans in the U.S. The essays in African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity engage readers in critical conversations by activists, scholars, and artists reflecting on national and transnational legacies of African American activism as an element of artistic practice, particularly as they concern artistic expression and race relations, and the intersections of creative processes with economic, sociological, and psychological inequalities. Scholars from the fields of communication, theater, queer studies, media studies, performance studies, dance, visual arts, and fashion design, to name a few, collectively ask: What are the connections between African American arts, the work of social justice, and creative processes? If we conceive the arts as critical to the legacy of Black activism in the United States, how can we use that construct to inform our understanding of the complicated intersections of African American activism and aesthetics? How might we as scholars and creative thinkers further employ the arts to envision and shape a verdant society? Contributors: Carrie Mae Weems, Carmen Gillespie, Rikki Byrd, Amber Lauren Johnson, Doria E. Charlson, Florencia V. Cornet, Daniel McNeil, Lucy Caplan, Genevieve Hyacinthe, Sammantha McCalla, Nettrice R. Gaskins, Abby Dobson, J. Michael Kinsey, Shondrika Moss-Bouldin, Julie B. Johnson, Sharrell D. Luckett, Jasmine Eileen Coles, Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, Rickerby Hinds. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

目次

List of Illustrations Visual Foreword: Carrie Mae Weems Series Editor Foreword: Carmen Gillespie Introduction: African American Arts in Action Sharrell D. Luckett Bodies of Activism Chapter 1: Trans Identity as Embodied Afrofuturism Amber Johnson Chapter 2: Designing Our Freedom: Toward a New Discourse of Fashion as a Strategy for Self Liberation Rikki Byrd Chapter 3: Pearl Primus' Choreo-Activism: 1943-1949 Doria E. Charlson Chapter 4: Performing New Nationalism/Performing a Living Culture: Josefina Baez's "Dominicanish" Florencia V. Cornet Chapter 5: Ethnicity, Ethicalness, Excellence: Armond White's All-American Humanism Daniel McNeil Chapter 6: Race and History on the Operatic Stage: Caterina Jarboro Sings Aida Lucy Caplan Music & Visual Art as Activism Chapter 7: "I Am Basquiat": Tracing Jean-Michel Basquiat's Alterity and Activism in Paint and Performance Genevieve Hyacinthe Chapter 8: "I Luh God": Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel and the Moral Mask of Language Discrimination Sammantha McCalla Chapter 9: The Hidden Code of the Kongo Cosmogram in African American Art and Culture Nettrice R. Gaskins Chapter 10: From Baldwin to Beyonce: Exploring the Responsibility of the Artist in Society--- Re-envisioning the Black Female Sonic Artist as Citizen Abby Dobson Chapter 11: Slaying "Formation": A Queering of Black Radical Tradition J. Michael Kinsey Institutions of Activism Chapter 12: Centering Blackness Through Performance in Every 28 Hours Shondrika Moss-Bouldin Chapter 13: Dancing for Justice Philadelphia: Embodiment, Dance, and Social Change Julie B. Johnson Chapter 14: A Conversation with Freddie Hendricks of the Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta Sharrell D. Luckett Chapter 15: The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment: Behind the Mask of Uncle Tomism and the Performance of Blackness Jasmine Coles & Tawnya Pettiford-Wates Afterword: Blackballin' A play by Rickerby Hinds Acknowledgments Index About the Contributors

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB29492225
• ISBN:
  • 9781684481521
• LCCN: 2019005251
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Lewisburg, Pa.
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 323 p., [5] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 26 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : NX512.3.A35
  • DC23 : 700.89/96073
• 件名:
  • LCSH : African American arts -- Political aspects
  • LCSH : Arts and society -- United States
  • LCSH : United States -- Civilization -- 21st century -- Forecasting
• 親書誌ID:
  • BB1796346X