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by: James Edward Smethurst
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.9896073
EAN: 9780807855980
ISBN: 0807855987
Label: The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: April 18, 2005
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Sales Rank: 191580
Studio: The University of North Carolina Press
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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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