Luckett, Sharrell D., editor. African-American Arts : Activism and Aesthetics (Conference) (2016 : Bucknell University)
Notes:
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. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Afterword: by Rickerby Hinds. Visual Foreword / Carrie Mae Weems -- Introduction: Blackballin' : a Play / 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.
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