Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; I Contexts; 1. 'The Real Heart of the Festival': The Exhibition of L'Art nègre at the Musée Dynamique; 2. Dance at the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts: Of 'Fabulous Dancers' and Negritude Undermined; 3. Staging Culture: Senghor, Malraux and the Theatre Programme at the First World Festival of Negro Arts; 4. Making History: Performances of the Past at the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts; 5. 'The Next Best Thing to Being There': Covering the 1966 Dakar Festival and its Legacy in Black Popular Magazines
II Legacies6. 'Negritude is Dead': Performing the African Revolution at the First Pan-African Cultural Festival (Algiers, 1969); 7. Beyond Negritude: Black Cultural Citizenship and the Arab Question in FESTAC '77; 8. Cultural Festivals in Senegal: Archives of Tradition, Mediations of Modernity; 9. FESMAN at 50: Pan-Africanism, Visual Modernism and the Archive of the Global Contemporary; 10. PANAFEST: A Festival Complex Revisited; Books and Films about the 1966 Festival; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This volume is the first sustained attempt to provide an overview of the First World Festival of Negro Arts, held in Dakar in 1966, and of its multiple legacies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Print version record
SUBJECT
Festival mondial des Arts nègres (01). 1966 Dakar. ram
