{"product_id":"encyclopedia-of-the-black-arts-movement-9781538101452","title":"Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Arts Movement (BAM) encompassed a group of artists, musicians, novelists, and playwrights, whose work combined innovative approaches to literature, film, music, visual arts and theatre. With a heightened consciousness of black agency and autonomy—along with the radical politics of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Muslims and the Black Panthers—these figures represented a collective effort to defy the status quo of American life and culture. Between the late 1950s and the end of the 1970s, the movement produced some of America’s most original and controversial artists and intellectuals.  In The Encyclopedia of the Blacks Arts Movement, Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis have collected essays on the key figures of the movement including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Larry Neal, Sun Ra, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, and Archie Shepp. Additional essays focus on Black Theatre magazine, the Negro Ensemble Company, and lesser known individuals—including Kathleen Collins, Tom Dent, Bill Gunn, June Jordan, and Barbara Ann Teer—and groups, such as AfriCOBRA and the New York Umbra Poetry Workshop.   Featuring essays by contemporary scholars and rare photographs of BAM artists, The Encyclopedia of the Blacks Arts Movement is an essential reference for students and scholars of twentieth century American literature and African-American cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Preface  Introduction by LaToya R. Jefferson-James Timeline Entries AfriCOBRA Allen, Samuel Angelou, Maya Baldwin, James “Ballad of Birmingham” Bambara, Toni Cade  Baraka, Amiri  Black Aesthetic, The  Black Arts Movement in Algeria, The  “Black Dada Nihilismus” Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing  Black Theatre Issue of The Drama Review  Black Theatre Magazine Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation Black Women Writers and the Black Arts Movement “Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird” Blues for Mister Charlie Broadside Press “Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon, A” Brooks, Gwendolyn  Bullins, Ed Caldwell, Ben Caribbean Artists Movement  Catherine Carmier  Childress, Alice Chisholm, Shirley Coleman, Wanda  Collins, Kathleen Davis, Angela Deacons for Defense and Justice Dent, Tom Dodson, Owen  Du Bois, W. E. B. Dutchman Evans, Mari Evans-Charles, Martie Fire Next Time, The for colored girls who have considered suicide\/when the rainbow is enuf  Free-Lance Pallbearers, The Gaines, Ernest J.  Giovanni, Nikki  Gunn, Bill  Hansberry, Lorraine Hayden, Robert Henderson, David Hopkinson, Nalo  Jordan, June Kennedy, Adrienne Kgositsile, Keorapetse William Knight, Etheridge  Last Poets, The “Lesson, The\" Malcolm X  Malcolm X, Poetry on  Marginalization and the Black Arts Movement Marson, Una Milner, Ron “Monday in B-Flat” Morrison, Toni Mumbo Jumbo Music and the Black Arts Movement Neal, Larry Negro Digest \/ Black World \/ First World Negro Ensemble Company, The No Place to Be Somebody One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X Organization of Black American Culture Polite, Carlene Hatcher  Ra, Sun Raisin in the Sun, A Randall, Dudley “Raymond’s Run” Redmond, Eugene B. Rodgers, Carolyn  Ross, Fran Sanchez, Sonia  Sexual Identity and the Black Arts Movement Shange, Ntozake Shepp, Archie Slave, The Smith, Jean Wheeler  Society of Umbra, The “Sonny’s Blues” Soul on Ice  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee  Teer, Barbara Ann This Child’s Gonna Live Thomas, Lorenzo Till, Poetry on Emmett  Touré, Askia Muhammad Tupac Shakur and the Black Arts Movement Understanding the New Black Poetry Voodoo Aesthetics and the Black Arts Movement Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine Selected Bibliography Index About the Editors and Contributors","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041096302935,"sku":"9781538101452","price":100.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538101452.jpg?v=1750948936","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/encyclopedia-of-the-black-arts-movement-9781538101452","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}