Black Arts West Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles

Name: Black Arts West
Author: Daniel Widener

Auteur: Daniel Widener

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Daniel Widener

Engels
Paperback
9780822346791
08 maart 2010
384 pagina's

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A social and cultural history of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second World War and the 1992 riots.

From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians’ unions, through the development of community-based arts organizations, to the creation of searing films critiquing conditions in the black working class neighborhoods of a city touting its multiculturalism— Black Arts West documents the social and political significance of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second World War and the riots of 1992. Focusing on the lives and work of black writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers, Daniel Widener tells how black cultural politics changed over time, and how altered political realities generated new forms of artistic and cultural expression. His narrative is filled with figures invested in the politics of black art and culture in postwar Los Angeles, including not only African American artists but also black nationalists, affluent liberal whites, elected officials, and federal bureaucrats.

Along with the politicization of black culture, Widener explores the rise of a distinctive regional Black Arts Movement. Originating in the efforts of wartime cultural activists, the movement was rooted in the black working class and characterized by struggles for artistic autonomy and improved living and working conditions for local black artists. As new ideas concerning art, racial identity, and the institutional position of African American artists emerged, dozens of new collectives appeared, from the Watts Writers Workshop, to the Inner City Cultural Center, to the New Art Jazz Ensemble. Spread across generations of artists, the Black Arts Movement in Southern California was more than the artistic affiliate of the local civil-rights or black-power efforts: it was a social movement itself. Illuminating the fundamental connections between expressive culture and political struggle, Black Arts West is a major contribution to the histories of Los Angeles, black radicalism, and avant-garde art.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 08 maart 2010
Aantal pagina's: 384
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Hoofdauteur: Daniel Widener
Hoofduitgeverij: Duke University Press

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Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 2.50 cm
Product lengte: 229 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 156 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 235 mm
Verpakking lengte: 235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 567 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Kunst & Fotografie

Sociale groepen

Sociologie

Etnische studies

Sociale theorie

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Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Periode: ca. 1950-1999

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