The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 : contexts and legacies / David Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, David, 1971- author.

Series:

Postcolonialism across the disciplines

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Festival of Negro Arts--(1st : 1966 : Dakar).

World Festival of Negro Arts.

Physical Description:

xii, 224 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In April 1966, thousands of artists, musicians, performers and writers from across Africa and its diaspora gathered in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to take part in the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Premier Festival mondial des ads nègres). The international forum provided by the Dakar Festival showcased a wide array of arts and was attended by such celebrated luminaries as Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Aimé Césaire, Andre Malraux and Wole Soyinka. Described by Senegalese President Leopold Sédar Senghor as 'the elaboration of a new humanism which this time will include all of humanity on the whole of our planet earth', the festival constituted a highly symbolic moment in the era of decolonization and the push for civil rights for black people in the United States. In essence, the festival sought to perform an emerging Pan-African culture, that is, to give concrete cultural expression to the ties that would bind the newly liberated African 'homeland' to black people in the diaspora. This volume is the first sustained attempt to provide not only an overview of the festival itself but also of its multiple legacies, which will help us better to understand the 'festivalization' of Africa that has occurred in recent decades with most African countries now hosting a number of festivals as part of a national tourism and cultural development strategy. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Contexts

1 'The Real Heart of the Festival': The Exhibition of L'Art nègre at the Musée Dynamique / Cédric Vincent Vincent, Cédric 45

2 Dance at the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts: Of 'Fabulous Dancers' and Negritude Undermined / Hélene Neveu Kringelbach Kringelbach, Hélene Neveu 64

3 Staging Culture: Senghor, Malraux and the Theatre Programme at the First World Festival of Negro Arts / Brian Quinn Quinn, Brian 83

4 Making History: Performances of the Past at the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts / Ruth Bush Bush, Ruth 97

5 'The Next Best Thing to Being There': Covering the 1966 Dakar Festival and its Legacy in Black Popular Magazines / Tsitsi Jaji Jaji, Tsitsi 113

6 'Negritude is Dead': Performing the African Revolution at the First Pan-African Cultural Festival (Algiers, 1969) / Samuel D. Anderson Anderson, Samuel D. 133

7 Beyond Negritude: Black Cultural Citizenship and the Arab Question in FESTAC '77 / Andrew Apter Apter, Andrew 151

8 Cultural Festivals in Senegal: Archives of Tradition, Mediations of Modernity / Ferdinand de Jong Jong, Ferdinand de 166

9 FESMAN at 50: Pan-Africanism, Visual Modernism and the Archive of the Global Contemporary / Elizabeth Harney Harney, Elizabeth 180

10 PANAFEST: A Festival Complex Revisited / Dominique Malaquais Malaquais, Dominique, Cédric Vincent Vincent, Cédric 194.

ISBN:

9781781383162

1781383162

OCLC:

946007275

Publisher Number:

99968950255