Spectacular blackness : the cultural politics of the Black power movement and the search for a Black aesthetic / Amy Abugo Ongiri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ongiri, Amy Abugo, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Panther Party.

Black power--United States--History--20th century.

Black power.

Arts--Political aspects.

History.

United States.

Black Arts movement.

Black Panther Party--History.

Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century.

Black nationalism.

African American arts--20th century.

African American arts.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans--Race identity.

Arts--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Arts.

Physical Description:

x, 223 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Summary:

Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and Black Arts movements and the Production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Spectacular Blackness captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. Ongiri traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture.

Contents:

1 "Black Is Beautiful!": Black Power Culture, Visual Culture, and the Black Panther Party 29

2 Radical Chic: Affiliation, Identification, and the Black Panther Party 58

3 "We Waitin' on You": Black Power, Black Intellectuals, and the Search to Define a Black Aesthetic 88

4 "People Get Ready!": Music, Revolutionary Nationalism, and the Black Arts Movement 124

5 "You Better Watch This Good Shit!": Black Spectatorship, Black Masculinity, and Blaxploitation Film 156.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813928593

0813928591

9780813928609

0813928605

9780813929606

0813929601

OCLC:

401714905