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, Jame…
James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the US. The Movement, he argues, changed American attitudes to the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and t…
By examining the production, presentation, and reception of experimental music by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, and others, Iain Anderson traces the strange, unexpected, and at times deeply ironic intersections between free jazz, avant-garde artistic movements, S…
"By examining the production, presentation, and reception of experimental music by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, and others, Iain Anderson traces the strange, unexpected, and at times deeply ironic intersections between free jazz, avant-garde artistic movements, …
Contents Introduction: The Acoustics of Unfreedom 1. The Sonic Field of Resistance: Free Jazz and the Horizon of Black Aesthetic Expansion 2. Apocalyptic Soundscapes: Listening to Henry Dumas's Short Fiction 3. Peering into the Maw: Larry Neal's Aesthetic Universe 4. Sonic Futur…
Published to accompany the exhibition held at Whitechapel Gallery, London, 7 June - 4 September 2005, and the New Art Gallery, Walsall, 30 September - 20 November 2005.
The book focuses on the rise of the Black Arts Movement in the US, Britain and Jamaica in the 1960s & 1970s.
"Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States. While Baraka's political and aesthetic stances changed considerably over the course of his…