Description
Book SynopsisThe deep structure manifest in African cultures in the diaspora is proof of the aesthetic continuity.
The debate continues over the exact nature of African aesthetics, and in this volume scholars and teachers in the fields of African and African American studies approach the subject from a broad range of disciplines.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
The Foundations The Concept of Nzuri: Towards Defining an African Centered Aesthetic; The African American Aesthetic and National Consciousness: Optimal Afrocentric Thought; The African Diasporan Ritual Mode: A Paradigm for the Analysis of Plays from the African Continuum; Location Theory and African Aesthetics; The African Aesthetic and National Consciousness
Applications Mpai: Libation Oratory; Aesthetic Practices Among African-American Women: An Examination of the Relevance of Three Competing Motivations; Jazz Literature and the African-American Aesthetic; The Search for an Afrocentric Visual Aesthetic; Aesthetics and African American Musical Expression;
Prospects The Aesthetics of Nommo in the Films of Spike Lee: "School Daze" and "Do The Right Thing" Zora Neale Hurston's Transmutation and Synthesis of Nommo: Reclamation of a Legacy Art for Life's Sake: African Art as a Reflection of an Afrocentric Cosmology
Conclusion Keeper of the Traditions: A Bibliographic Essay in African Aesthetics Index
