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Left of Black | The Black Arts Movement of the South with James Smethurst
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Left of Black with GerShun Avilez
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AFAM 160 Week 8 Overview Prof Zeal Harris
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Community Class Series: HBCUs and Black Leadership
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Left of Black with Sylvia Chan-Malik
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The Faces of Black History Part 2
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"My Culture, Right or Wrong: Thoughts about Music and Power"
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, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the United States through its negotiations of the ideological climate of the Cold War, decolonization, and the civil rights movement.
Taking a regional approach, Smethurst examines local expressions of the nascent Black Arts Movement, a movement distinctive in its geographical reach and diversity, while always keeping the frame of the larger movement in view. The Black Arts Movement, he argues, fundamentally changed American attitudes about the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and dramatically transformed the landscape of public funding for the arts.
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