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The Griot Project Book Ser.: African American Arts : Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity by Rikki Byrd (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBucknell University Press
ISBN-10168448152X
ISBN-139781684481521
eBay Product ID (ePID)5038528794
Product Key Features
Number of Pages344 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAfrican American Arts : Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity
SubjectAmerican / African American, History / Contemporary (1945-), Art & Politics, General, United States / 21st Century, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Social Science, History
AuthorRikki Byrd
SeriesThe Griot Project Book Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight17 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2019-005251
Reviews"Three essays will be especially noteworthy for readers new to this topic: Abby Dobson's "From Baldwin to Beyoncé," Lucy Caplan's 'Race and History on the Operatic Stage,' and Jasmine Coles and Tawnya Pettiford-Wates's 'The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment.' The last of these explores 'Uncle Tom-ism' as portrayed in minstrel shows and deconstructs the bipolar extremes of the good versus bad slave. Recommended.", A compendium of provocative, smart contemporary thought on the politics of culture and possibilities for progressive interventions; and it surveys various fields, identifying figures and projects of worth., In African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity , Sharrell D. Luckett brings together a treasure trove of essays that contribute greatly to the extant literature on black art and the political economic conditions through which they emerge. With the same care to aesthetics as the artists they analyze, each of the authors in the volume demonstrates that race, artistry, and activism are intimately imbricated--and must be if there is to be a black future.
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Freshman
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal700.89/96073
Table Of ContentList 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 Báez'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 Beyoncé: 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
SynopsisSignaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Mon e, 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., This collection 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 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., Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, 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.
LC Classification NumberNX512
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