The Black Arts Movement
Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
James Smethurst
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 03/2006
Pages: 488
Subject: Social Science, Art, Literary Criticism
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807876503
DESCRIPTION
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.