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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Black Arts Movement"”.
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Diaspora Citation: Choreographing Belonging in the Black Arts Movement
… the work of concert dance artists within the Black Arts Movement (1965-75) in order to situate the impact of their work in the present. I use a method of diaspora citation to comprehend their choreographic strategies in articulating forms and critiques of belonging that continue to resonate …
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Improvising Resistance: Jazz, Poetry, and the Black Arts Movement, 1960–1969
… within the broad context of the civil-rights and black-nationalist movements of the same period. Its principal contention is that the two forms afford each other symbiotic illumination. Close reading of jazz musicology in particular illuminates the directions taken by the literature of the period …
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From the Inside Out: Excavating the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles
<p>This work examines the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles (PASLA), one of several cultural arts responses to the 1965 Watts Rebellion. Fundamentally, this work seeks to restore to memory and discourse the work of the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles, its founder Motojicho Vantile …
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The Song We Sing: Negotiating Black Nationalism And Queerness In James Baldwin's Late Novels
Despite his exclusion from the Black Arts Movement, James Baldwin includes in his later novels many elements of Black Nationalism, including a focus on black communities, black music, Pan-Africanism, and elements of separatism. In his inclusion of queer sexuality, Baldwin pushes against the typical …
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Producing a Black Oeuvre: Narratives of Black Grassroots Cultural Organizing in Boston
… production in the City of Boston, a vanguard of Black artists and cultural organizers are developing structures and organizations to help local members of Boston’s Black communities steer their own cultural production. This thesis develops an understanding of actions being taken by these …
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LIBERATORY EXPRESSIONS: BLACK WOMEN, RESISTANCE AND THE CODED WORD, AN AFRICOLOGICAL EXAMINATION
… a purpose. The beautiful quilts sewn by enslaved Black women served dual functions, as bed coverings and as symbols of resistance and liberation. The decorative wrought-ironwork found on gates and doors throughout the United States serves as a Sankofic reminder and protector. The highly coded …
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Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts
… through a study of post-1945 American radical movements. Far from generating simple propaganda, social movements create rhetoric and imagery that engage with complex literary tropes. Specifically, this study addresses the use of "primitive" and "industrial" metaphors in African-American …
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Dashiki Project Theatre: black identity and beyond
… Southern Theater was the only theatre of the black experience in New Orleans. Through Dashiki Project Theatre, the black community found another opportunity to relate to black experience through the medium of theatrical performance. In the mid-sixties Theodore Gilliam, a Dillard University …
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‘We Shift You’: Experimental Infrastructures, Race, Gender, and Unity and Difference in Britain, 1980–97
… students in Leeds (1981–84); Bazaar: South Asian Arts Magazine (1987–92); Panchayat archive (c. 1992–2003); and Horizon Gallery (1987–91). None have been the focus of any major study, thus this thesis offers granular historical reconstructions, drawing from archival research and oral history. It …
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Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: Rap Nationalism, The Gangsta, and the Making of the Dirty South.
… music exists on a continuum of historically black musical traditions and draws from various moments in the history of black resistance. My project will focus on an examination of the several important mainstream hip-hop groups and also positioning hip-hop music within a long history of black …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
<p>The Elegy for the Black Body examines the mid-twentieth to early-twenty-first-century poetic justice crafted by African American poets to eulogize individual African Americans whose deaths were the result of racial and political violence. In the age of lynching, mass shooting, and police …
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A Matter of Life and Def: Poetic Knowledge and the Organic Intellectuals in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry
… resistance within the controlling images of Black bodies and people of color on television. Their poetry extended the Black radical poetic tradition, that, in-large part began with the Harlem Renaissance, and continued through jazz poetry, the Black Arts Movement, hip-hop, and poetry slams. …