This dissertation examine the sharp rise of black theatre companies during the Black Power
Claiming space, being in public -- Cultural nationalism and community culture : on the beach, opportunity please knock, and the Affro-Arts Theater -- An experimental friendship -- The Black family -- Until the walls come down -- Superreal images and superreal people. In the 196…
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the establishment of independent community art centers to the work of the AFRICOBRA c…
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the establishment of independent community art centers to the work of the AFRICOBRA c…
Rebecca Zorach traces the little-told story of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago, showing how its artistic innovations, institution building, and community engagement helped the residents of Chicago's South and West Sides respond to social, political, and economic marginalizati…
"In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the establishment of independent community art centers to the work of the AFRICOBRA …
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the establishment of independent community art centers to the work of the AFRICOBRA c…
In this thesis, I examine Gwendolyn Brooks's diptych poems "Two Dedications" from her 1968 collection In the Mecca. Critical accounts of "Two Dedications" cast the poems as fixed oppositions between "frivolous" Western art and inspiring, communal black art. I propose that such b…
Staging the African explores how the practice, production and staged performances of West African-derived dance and the West African dancing body emerged within the context of the West African Independence and African American Liberation Movements of the 1960s. Through the revie…