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SOS -- Calling All Black People

Sanchez, Sonia, Smethurst, James Edward, Bracey, John H.

2015,2014

Overview

This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural movements in American history. The aesthetic counterpart of the Black Power movement, it burst onto the scene in the form of artists' circles, writers' workshops, drama groups, dance troupes, new publishing ventures, bookstores, and cultural centers and had a presence in practically every community and college campus with an appreciable African American population. Black Arts activists extended its reach even further through magazines such as Ebony and Jet, on television shows such as Soul! and Like It Is, and on radio programs. Many of the movement's leading artists, including Ed Bullins, Nikki Giovanni, Woodie King, Haki Madhubuti, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Touré, and Val Gray Ward remain artistically productive today. Its influence can also be seen in the work of later artists, from the writers Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, and August Wilson to actors Avery Brooks, Danny Glover, and Samuel L. Jackson, to hip hop artists Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Chuck D. SOS -- Calling All Black People includes works of fiction, poetry, and drama in addition to critical writings on issues of politics, aesthetics, and gender. It covers topics ranging from the legacy of Malcolm X and the impact of John Coltrane's jazz to the tenets of the Black Panther Party and the music of Motown. The editors have provided a substantial introduction outlining the nature, history, and legacy of the Black Arts Movement as well as the principles by which the anthology was assembled.

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Subject: 20th century / African American / African American authors / African Americans / African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century / African Americans in literature / American / American literature / American literature -- African American authors / Black Arts movement / Black nationalism / Black nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century / History / Intellectual life / Language & Literature / LITERARY CRITICISM / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / United States
• ISBN: 1625340303, 9781625340306, 1625340311, 9781625340313