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Title African American arts : activism, aesthetics, and futurity / edited by Sharrell D. Luckett.
Publisher Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2020]
Copyright date ©2020



Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 323 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations
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Note 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.
Contents Series Editor Foreword / Carmen Gillespie -- Visual Foreword / Carrie Mae Weems -- Introduction: African American Arts in Action / Sharrell D. Luckett -- Part I: Bodies of Activism. -- Trans Identity as Embodied Afrofuturism / Amber Johnson -- Designing Our Freedom: Toward a New Discourse on Fashion as a Strategy for Self-Liberation / Rikki Byrd -- Pearl Primus's Choreo-Activism: 1943-1949 / Doria E. Charlson -- Performing New Nationalism/Performing a Living Culture: Josefina Báez's Dominicanish / Florencia V. Cornet -- Ethnicity, Ethicalness, Excellence: Armond White's All-American Humanism / Daniel McNeil -- Race and History on the Operatic Stage: Caterina jarboro Sings Aida / Lucy Caplan -- Part II: Music and Visual Art as Activism. -- "I Am Basquiat": Tracing Jean-Michel Basquiat's Alterity and Activism in Paint and Performance / Genevieve Hyacinthe -- "I Luh God" : Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel and the Moral Mask of Language Discrimination / Sammantha McCalla -- The Hidden Code of the Kongo Cosmogram in African American Art and Culture / Nettrice R. Gaskins -- From Baldwin to Beyoncé: Exploring the Responsibility of the Artist in Society---Re-envisioning the Black Female Sonic Artist as Citizen / Abby Dobson -- Slaying "Formation": A Queering of Black Radical Tradition / J. Michael Kinsey -- Part III: Institutions of Activism. -- Centering Blackness through Performance in Every 28 Hours / Shondrika Moss-Bouldin -- Dancing for Justice Philadelphia: Embodiment, Dance, and Social Change / Julie B. Johnson -- A conversation with Freddie Hendricks of the Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta / Sharrell D. Luckett -- The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment : Behind the Mask of Uncle Tom-ism and the Performance of Blackness / Jasmine Coles & Tawnya Pettiford-Wates -- Afterword: Blackballin' : a Play / by Rickerby Hinds.
Note In English.
ISBN 9781684481569 (electronic bk.)
1684481562 (electronic bk.)
9781684481521
168448152X
9781684481538
1684481538
Standard # 10.36019/9781684481569 doi
Standard no. 40029652943
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Series The Griot project
Griot Project book series.
Subject African American arts -- Political aspects.
Arts and society -- United States.
United States -- Civilization -- 21st century -- Forecasting.
Alt author Luckett, Sharrell D., editor.
Alt Author African-American Arts : Activism and Aesthetics (Conference) (2016 : Bucknell University)
Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 323 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript text file
PDF
Note 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.
Contents Series Editor Foreword / Carmen Gillespie -- Visual Foreword / Carrie Mae Weems -- Introduction: African American Arts in Action / Sharrell D. Luckett -- Part I: Bodies of Activism. -- Trans Identity as Embodied Afrofuturism / Amber Johnson -- Designing Our Freedom: Toward a New Discourse on Fashion as a Strategy for Self-Liberation / Rikki Byrd -- Pearl Primus's Choreo-Activism: 1943-1949 / Doria E. Charlson -- Performing New Nationalism/Performing a Living Culture: Josefina Báez's Dominicanish / Florencia V. Cornet -- Ethnicity, Ethicalness, Excellence: Armond White's All-American Humanism / Daniel McNeil -- Race and History on the Operatic Stage: Caterina jarboro Sings Aida / Lucy Caplan -- Part II: Music and Visual Art as Activism. -- "I Am Basquiat": Tracing Jean-Michel Basquiat's Alterity and Activism in Paint and Performance / Genevieve Hyacinthe -- "I Luh God" : Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel and the Moral Mask of Language Discrimination / Sammantha McCalla -- The Hidden Code of the Kongo Cosmogram in African American Art and Culture / Nettrice R. Gaskins -- From Baldwin to Beyoncé: Exploring the Responsibility of the Artist in Society---Re-envisioning the Black Female Sonic Artist as Citizen / Abby Dobson -- Slaying "Formation": A Queering of Black Radical Tradition / J. Michael Kinsey -- Part III: Institutions of Activism. -- Centering Blackness through Performance in Every 28 Hours / Shondrika Moss-Bouldin -- Dancing for Justice Philadelphia: Embodiment, Dance, and Social Change / Julie B. Johnson -- A conversation with Freddie Hendricks of the Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta / Sharrell D. Luckett -- The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment : Behind the Mask of Uncle Tom-ism and the Performance of Blackness / Jasmine Coles & Tawnya Pettiford-Wates -- Afterword: Blackballin' : a Play / by Rickerby Hinds.
Note In English.
ISBN 9781684481569 (electronic bk.)
1684481562 (electronic bk.)
9781684481521
168448152X
9781684481538
1684481538
Standard # 10.36019/9781684481569 doi
Standard no. 40029652943
Series The Griot project
Griot Project book series.
Subject African American arts -- Political aspects.
Arts and society -- United States.
United States -- Civilization -- 21st century -- Forecasting.
Alt author Luckett, Sharrell D., editor.
Alt Author African-American Arts : Activism and Aesthetics (Conference) (2016 : Bucknell University)

Subject African American arts -- Political aspects.
Arts and society -- United States.
United States -- Civilization -- 21st century -- Forecasting.
Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 323 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript text file
PDF
Note 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.
Contents Series Editor Foreword / Carmen Gillespie -- Visual Foreword / Carrie Mae Weems -- Introduction: African American Arts in Action / Sharrell D. Luckett -- Part I: Bodies of Activism. -- Trans Identity as Embodied Afrofuturism / Amber Johnson -- Designing Our Freedom: Toward a New Discourse on Fashion as a Strategy for Self-Liberation / Rikki Byrd -- Pearl Primus's Choreo-Activism: 1943-1949 / Doria E. Charlson -- Performing New Nationalism/Performing a Living Culture: Josefina Báez's Dominicanish / Florencia V. Cornet -- Ethnicity, Ethicalness, Excellence: Armond White's All-American Humanism / Daniel McNeil -- Race and History on the Operatic Stage: Caterina jarboro Sings Aida / Lucy Caplan -- Part II: Music and Visual Art as Activism. -- "I Am Basquiat": Tracing Jean-Michel Basquiat's Alterity and Activism in Paint and Performance / Genevieve Hyacinthe -- "I Luh God" : Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel and the Moral Mask of Language Discrimination / Sammantha McCalla -- The Hidden Code of the Kongo Cosmogram in African American Art and Culture / Nettrice R. Gaskins -- From Baldwin to Beyoncé: Exploring the Responsibility of the Artist in Society---Re-envisioning the Black Female Sonic Artist as Citizen / Abby Dobson -- Slaying "Formation": A Queering of Black Radical Tradition / J. Michael Kinsey -- Part III: Institutions of Activism. -- Centering Blackness through Performance in Every 28 Hours / Shondrika Moss-Bouldin -- Dancing for Justice Philadelphia: Embodiment, Dance, and Social Change / Julie B. Johnson -- A conversation with Freddie Hendricks of the Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta / Sharrell D. Luckett -- The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment : Behind the Mask of Uncle Tom-ism and the Performance of Blackness / Jasmine Coles & Tawnya Pettiford-Wates -- Afterword: Blackballin' : a Play / by Rickerby Hinds.
Note In English.
Alt author Luckett, Sharrell D., editor.
Alt Author African-American Arts : Activism and Aesthetics (Conference) (2016 : Bucknell University)
ISBN 9781684481569 (electronic bk.)
1684481562 (electronic bk.)
9781684481521
168448152X
9781684481538
1684481538
Standard # 10.36019/9781684481569 doi
Standard no. 40029652943

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