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Celebrating African Art – Part 1
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Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s (Interplay) $15.87 In the years after the end of the First World War, large numbers of Africans and African Americans emigrated to the cities of Europe in search of work and improved social conditions. Their impact on white European society was immense. In Paris, where the artistic climate was particularly sensitive and experimental, avant-garde artists courted black personalities such as Josephine Baker, Henry Crow… |
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African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics $23.07 Contemporary African filmmaking is thesubject of this insightful and exciting lookat every aspect of the art form on theAfrican continent. Focusing on new trends in African cinema from the 1990s totoday, this book explores new cinematic languages and modesof production, films departure from nationalism and socialrealism, and the Nollywood film industry, among other topics.In this book Manthia Diaw… |
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In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition $20.52 In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on “The Burton Greene Affair,” exploring the tangled relationship between black avant-garde in music and literature… |
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Flash of the Spirit $11.06 This landmark book shows how five African civilization have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil, and other places in the New Wo… |
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Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen (Hardcover) $59.95 Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation.   … |
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African Film (Paperback) $24.59 Description not available. |
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Urban Bush Women (Paperback) $21.28 Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the ground-breaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Their unique aesthetic borrows from classical and contemporary d… |
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The Addison Gayle Jr. Reader (Hardcover) $74.25 This reader collects sixty of the personal essays, critical articles, and other seminal works of Addison Gayle Jr., one of the most influential figures in African American literary criticism and a key pioneer in the Black Arts/Black Aesthetic… |