The Black Arts Movement : Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
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Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the United States through its negotiations of the ideological climate of the Cold War, decolonization, and the civil rights movement.
Taking a regional approach, Smethurst examines variations in the character of the local expressions of the nascent Black Arts Movement, a movement distinctive in its geographical reach and diversity, while always keeping the frame of the larger movement in view. The Black Arts Movement, he argues, fundamentally changed American attitudes about the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and dramatically transformed the landscape of public funding for the arts.
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Smethurst explores the Black Arts Movement, the "cultural wing" of the Black Power Movement, in which black artists and intellectuals negotiated the political and cultural moment of the Cold War, civil rights, decolonization, the Beats, the New York School, the California Renaissance, and the Black Mountain School.
The Black Arts Movement : Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
The Black Arts Movement : Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture),James Edward Smethurst,The University of North Carolina Press,0807855987,20th century,African American authors,African Americans,American - African American & Black,American literature,Art & Politics,Black nationalism,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,History,History and criticism,Intellectual life,Social Science,Sociology,United States,Social Science / African-American Studies
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