Black Arts Movement
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Overview
The Black Arts Movement is commonly known as the artistic branch of the Black Power movement. This movement was founded in Harlem by writer and activist Amiri Baraka(b. Everett LeRoi Jones), who is arguably its most prominent, important figure.See http://www.umich.edu/~eng499/orgs/barts.htmlTime Magazine describes the Black Arts Movement as the "single most controversial moment in the history of African-American literature--possibly in American literature as a whole."See http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5647The Black Arts Repertory Theatre is the key institution of the Black Arts Movement.Notes
Key Writers and Thinkers of this Movement
- :(arranged alphabetically)
- Maya Angelou
- Amiri Baraka (aka Evertt LeRoi Jones)
- Jean Carey Bond
- Walter Bowe
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Ed Bullins
- Steve Cannon
- Harold Cruse
- Tom Dent
- Ray Durem
- Nikki Giovanni
- Rosa Guy
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Al Haynes
- David Henderson
- Calvin Hicks
- Marvin X (known as Marvin Jackson)
- Ron Karenga
- Adrienne Kennedy
- Keorapetse
- John O. Killens
- Robert MacBeth
- Haki Madhubuti
- "Willie" Kgositsile Nannie
- Larry Neal
- Yusef Rahman
- Sonia Sanchez
- Barbara Ann Teer
- Lorenzo Thomas
- Askia Touré
- Sarah Wright
Other Info
A 2005 international exhibition, 'Back to Black - Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary', details which are available with the [Archives of Whitechapel Art Gallery]
A 2006 major conference 'Should Black Art Still Be Beautiful'? Organised by OOM Gallery and Midwest the conference created a forum by examinining the development of contemporary Black cultural practice and its future in Britain. April 1st 2006, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK.
Recently redeveloped African and Asian Visual Arts Archive ( [link]) currently located at University of East London (UEL). This archive can be searched through the UEL library site.
The Arts Council of England's (ACE) decibel initiative produced a summary, [Reinventing Britain], in 2003 in association with the Guardian newspaper.
Archive available at [Schomburg Centre, NYPL].
External Links
- [Black Arts Movement Page at University of Michigan]
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