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1 online resource |
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Machine generated contents note: Black Arts Movement / Amiri Baraka -- SECTION I THEORY/CRITICISM -- Introduction to Theory / Criticism / A.B. Spellman -- Poetry and Black Liberation: Freedom's Furious Passions (Reminiscence) / Askia M. Toure -- DA-DUM-DUN: A BAM Triumvirate of Conch/Us/Nest: Miles Davis, Henry Dumas & Katherine Dunham in East St. Louis, Illinois (Reminiscence) / Eugene B. Redmond -- 1. Politics and Culture -- Harlem Black Arts Theater -- New Dialogue with the Lost Black Generation / Harold Cruse -- Symposium: The Measure and the Meaning of Sixties / Carolyn Gerald -- Black Cultural Nationalism / Ron (Maulana) Karenga -- Black Arts Movement / Larry Neal -- Southern Black Cultural Alliance, By-Laws -- Third World Press, A Statement of Purpose -- Max Stanford (Muhammad Ahmad), Towards Revolutionary Action Movement Manifesto -- Umbra, Foreword to Issue 1.1 -- Larry Neal [Atlanta C.A.P. Creativity Workshop], Resolutions -- SECTION III POETRY -- Poetry of BAM: Meditation, Critique, Praise / Sonia Sanchez -- STORM COMING: Memoir and History (Reminiscence) / Haki Madhubuti -- 1. Consciousness -- Upon Being Black One Friday Night in July / Johari Amini -- What Shall We Tell My Children Who Are Black / Dr. Margaret Burroughs -- Black People! / Amiri Baraka -- Life of Lincoln West / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Black jam for dr. negro / Mari Evans -- Sister Brother / Joe Goncalves -- Father Tells His Son About the Statue of Liberty / Bobb Hamilton -- Jitterbugging in the Streets / Calvin C. Hernton -- Revolution Will Not Be Televised / Gil Scott-Heron -- Niggers R Scared of Revolution / Kim Green -- But He Was Cool / Haki Madhubuti -- Personal Jihad / Gaston Neal -- Barbequed Cong: Or We Laid My Lai Low / Eugene Redmond -- How I got ovah / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Summary / Sonia Sanchez -- Tomorrow the heroes / A.B. Spellman -- "Black Power!" / Edward S. Spriggs -- Twelve Gates / Lorenzo Thomas -- Cry Freedom / Askia Toure -- 2. Malcolm -- Eulogy for Malcolm X / Ossie Davis -- Poem For Black Hearts / Amiri Baraka -- Malcolm X / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Portrait of Malcolm X / Etheridge Knight -- That Old Time Religion / Marvin E. Jackmon -- Malcolm X -- An Autobiography / Larry Neal -- Malcolm / Sonia Sanchez -- For Malcolm Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children / Quincy Troupe -- For Malcolm / Margaret Walker -- Plea for the Politic Man / Jay Wright -- 3. Coltrane and Jazz -- How Long Has This Trane Been Gone / Jayne Cortez -- Legacy: In Memory of Trane / Ebon Dooley -- Tribute to Duke / Sarah Webster Fabio -- Elvin Jones Gretsch Freak / David Henderson -- Don't Cry, Scream / Haki Madhubuti -- Coming of John / Amus Mor -- Don't Say Goodbye to the Pork-Pie Hat / Larry Neal -- Conversions / Sterling Plumpp -- Transcendental Blues / Yusuf Rahman -- Written for Love of an Ascension-Coltrane / Carolyn Rodgers -- A/Coltrane/Poem / Sonia Sanchez -- On Seeing pharaoh sanders blowing / Sonia Sanchez -- Did John's Music Kill Him? / A.B. Spellman -- 4. Africa -- African Night Suite / Jayne Cortez -- Painted Lady / Margaret Danner -- Africa I; Africa II / Nikki Giovanni -- LUMUMBA LIVES LUMUMBA LIVES!! / Ted Joans -- My Name Is Africa / Keorapetse Kgositsile -- Ancestors / Dudley Randall -- I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra / Ishmael Reed -- Earth / Askia Toure -- 5. Women -- For Gwendolyn Brooks -- A Whole & Beautiful Spirit / Johari Amini -- I Am A Black Woman / Mari Evans -- Woman Poem / Nikki Giovanni -- Woman / Gloria Larry House -- If you saw a Negro lady / June Jordan -- Naturally / Audre Lorde -- Cadence / K. Curtis Lyle -- Blackwoman / Haki Madhubuti -- Last M.F. / Carolyn Rodgers -- Woman / Sonia Sanchez -- 6. Heritage -- Promenade / Sam Cornish -- Lynch Fragment / Jayne Cortez -- Urban Dream / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Return to English Turn / Tom Dent -- Music / Everett Hoagland -- Idea of Ancestry / Etheridge Knight -- Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall -- Rivers of Bones and Flesh and Blood / Eugene Redmond -- Sunset Beach/L.A. / Ahmos Zu-Bolton -- 7. Songs -- Say It Loud -- I'm Black and I'm Proud / James Brown -- Afro Blue / Oscar Brown Jr. -- What's Goin' On / Marvin Gaye -- Keep on Pushin' / Curtis Mayfield -- To Be Young, Gifted, and Black / Weldon J. Irvine Jr. -- War / Barrett Strong -- SECTION IV DRAMA -- Kuumba Theatre: A Radical Idea Comes to Life (Reminiscence) / Francis Ward -- Living in the Black Arts Movement (Reminiscence) / Aishah Rahman -- Black Mass / Amiri Baraka -- Clara's Ole Man / Ed Bullins -- Prayer Meeting Or, The First Militant Preacher / Ben Caldwell -- Wine in the Wilderness / Alice Childress -- Suicide / Carol Freeman -- Flowers for the Trashman / Marvin E. Jackmon -- Monster / Ronald Milner -- Bronx Is Next / Sonia Sanchez -- SECTION V FICTION / NARRATIVE -- Black Arts Fiction: An Introduction / Eleanor W. Traylor -- Organizer's Wife / Toni Cade Bambara -- Harlem / Henry Dumas -- Love Song for Seven Little Boys Called; Sam / C.H. Fuller Jr. -- Sonny's Seasons / Sam Greenlee -- Reena / Paule Marshall -- Happening in Barbados / Louise Meriwether -- Excerpt from The Bluest Eye / Toni Morrison -- Cab Calloway Stands In for the Moon / Ishmael Reed -- Frankie Mae / Jean Wheeler Smith -- King Alfred Plan / John A. Williams -- AFTERWORDS -- Hip Hop Vision: Password: Nation Conscious Rap / James G. Spady -- Coming from a Black Thing: Remembering the Black Arts Movement / John H. Bracey Jr. -- Learning from the 60s / Audrey Lorde |
| Summary |
"This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural movements in American history. The aesthetic counterpart of the Black Power movement, it burst onto the scene in the form of artists' circles, writers' workshops, drama groups, dance troupes, new publishing ventures, bookstores, and cultural centers and had a presence in practically every community and college campus with an appreciable African American population. Black Arts activists extended its reach even further through magazines such as Ebony and Jet, on television shows such as Soul! and Like It Is, and on radio programs. Many of the movement's leading artists, including Ed Bullins, Nikki Giovanni, Woodie King, Haki Madhubuti, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Touré, and Val Gray Ward remain artistically productive today. Its influence can also be seen in the work of later artists, from the writers Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, and August Wilson to actors Avery Brooks, Danny Glover, and Samuel L. Jackson, to hip hop artists Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Chuck D. SOS -- Calling All Black People includes works of fiction, poetry, and drama in addition to critical writings on issues of politics, aesthetics, and gender. It covers topics ranging from the legacy of Malcolm X and the impact of John Coltrane's jazz to the tenets of the Black Panther Party and the music of Motown. The editors have provided a substantial introduction outlining the nature, history, and legacy of the Black Arts Movement as well as the principles by which the anthology was assembled."--Google books viewed Feb. 2, 2021 |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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African Americans in literature.
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Black nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Black Arts movement.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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American literature -- African American authors.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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African Americans in literature
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African Americans -- Intellectual life
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American literature -- African American authors
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Black Arts movement
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Black nationalism
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Smethurst, James Edward, editor
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Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- editor.
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Bracey, John H., editor
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| ISBN |
9781613762769 |
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1613762763 |
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