Black Arts movement

This dissertation examine the sharp rise of black theatre companies during the Black Power

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…

Previous scholarship identifies the Black Arts Movement (BAM) in America as a movement that articulated a black aesthetic, communicated with black American masses, combined art and activism, and countered Western ideologies. Recent scholarship interprets the BAM as an interdisci…