scholarly journals CONSELHOS PARA UM JOVEM ARTISTA NEGRO / Advices to a young black artist

2022 ◽  
Vol 27 (42) ◽  
pp. 336-341
Author(s):  
Howardena Pindell Traduzido por Talita Trizoli
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Work Relationships ◽  
Professional Advice ◽  
Black Artists ◽  
The Arts ◽  
American Artist

Nesse ensaio confessional, a artista afro-americana Howardena Pindell rememora alguns epis�dios de racismo em sua trajet�ria profissional como artista e curadora, al�m de oferecer alguns conselhos profissionais para jovens artistas negros, a fim de escapar de rela��es abusivas de trabalho, golpes e demais�problemas existentes no sistema das artes.Palavras-chave:Ensaio de artista. Sistema das artes. Conselhos.�AbstractIn this confessional essay, the African-American artist Howardena Pindell recalls�some episodes of racism in her professional trajectory as an artist and curator, as well as offering some professional advice to young black artists, in order to escape from abusive work relationships, scams and other problems existing in the arts system.Keywords:Artist essay. Art system. Advice.

A Performative Memoric Investigation of YoungGiftedandFat

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Sharrell D. Luckett ◽  
Audrey Edwards ◽  
Megan J. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
African American Females ◽  
Stage Manager ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
Power Negotiations ◽  
Research Collective

In 2013, Sharrell D. Luckett formed the Performance Studies & Arts Research Collective, which encourages members to explore their identities through the arts. Around this time, Audrey Edwards and Megan J. Stewart—both African American females and Collective members—became interested in autoethnography, and Luckett invited them to study closely with her. In this performative essay, Luckett, Edwards, and Stewart implicitly highlight various power negotiations enacted as professor/student, actress/stage manager, actress/assistant director, and mentor/mentee, while all working on their own autoethnographies, and while working collectively on Luckett's autoethnographic performance: YoungGiftedandFat.

“I LEAVE YOU LOVE”: African American Women as Collectors in, of, and through, the Arts

Collections ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 113-166
Author(s):  
Lisa Pertillar Brevard
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Black People ◽  
Government Service ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
American Women ◽  
World Citizenship ◽  
Direct Descendant ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Just Society

In her last will and testament, educator-activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955) declared, “I LEAVE YOU LOVE. Love builds.” A direct descendant of former chattel slaves, Bethune believed in building from the bottom up: beginning with love, or positive thoughts, and manifesting those thoughts. By accretion of goods and goodwill, she built not only a physical school which fostered the arts as a bridge toward world citizenship for disenfranchised black people but also a school of thought, extending to encompass purposeful government service at local and federal levels, toward achieving a just society. Bethune’s determined example of building by accretion informs and helps us to better understand and articulate a wide variety of African American women’s collecting in, of, and through, the arts. This article explores and defines—according to philosophy, purpose, practice, type, scope, and audience—various examples of collecting and collections among selected African American women in the arts, many of whom became contributors to, and subjects of, various collections.

Gwendolyn Bennett's “The Ebony Flute”

PMLA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 744-755
Author(s):  
Belinda Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
African American ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
Black Artists ◽  
Assistant Editor ◽  
Cover Art ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

IntroductionGwendolyn Bennett (1902-81) is often mentioned in books that discuss the harlem renaissance, and some of her poems Occasionally appear in poetry anthologies; but much of her career has been overlooked. Along with many of her friends, including Jessie Redmond Fauset, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen, Bennett was featured at the National Urban League's Civic Club Dinner in March 1924, an event that would later be “widely hailed as a ‘coming out party’ for young black artists, writers, and intellectuals whose work would come to define the Harlem Renaissance” (McHenry 383n100). In the next five years Bennett published over forty poems, short stories, and reviews in leading African American magazines and anthologies, such as Cullen's Caroling Dusk (1927) and William Stanley Braithwaite's Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1927; she created magazine cover art that adorned two leading African American periodicals, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races and the National Urban League's Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life; she worked as an editor or assistant editor of several magazines, including Opportunity, Black Opals, and Fire!; and she wrote a renowned literary column, “The Ebony Flute.” Many scholars, such as Cary Wintz, Abby Arthur Johnson and Ronald Maberry Johnson, and Elizabeth McHenry, recognized the importance of Bennett's column to the Harlem Renaissance in their respective studies, but their emphasis on a larger Harlem Renaissance discussion did not afford a detailed examination of her column.

African-American Shakespeares: Loving Blackness as Political Resistance

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
Jason M. Demeter
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Black Artists ◽  
Henry Iv

Can a Shakespeare course effectively historicize and challenge Shakespeare’s deployment in U.S. educational contexts “as an instrument of white racial consolidation and non-white marginalization”? Demeter offers a concise summary of Shakespeare’s positioning as the pinnacle of “universal” white, Western cultural values before detailing a course that combines Richard III, Henry IV Part I, and Othello with responses to Shakespeare’s works by black artists such as James Baldwin, August Wilson, Toni Morrison, and Djanet Sears. Though he hoped that placing African-American literature and Shakespeare “on equal footing” would provoke critical interrogations of Shakespeare’s privileged place in the literary canon, Demeter finds Shakespeare’s whiteness and universality difficult myths to dismantle, and offers his ambivalent experience as a way to frame key questions about the relation between Shakespeare pedagogy and social justice.

The Rise of the Trio

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-144
Author(s):  
Will Friedwald
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Artist

This chapter looks at the musical output of the King Cole Trio in the peak years of 1943 to 1946 and breaks down the different kinds of songs they favored. Although they were first famous for jivey novelty songs like “Straighten Up and Fly Right,” they also played a large number of classic songs from what would later be called the Great American Songbook, and even at the beginning, Nat was featuring more and more ballads in the Trio’s musical makeup. Also, he was cultivating a network of songwriters who were giving him first crack at their wares. By the end of the war, Nat King Cole had risen as high as any African American artist ever had before him, and yet it was only the beginning.

Harlem Nightclubs

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Templeton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
York City ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Big Band ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Black Artists ◽  
Lindy Hop ◽  
Tap Dance ◽  
Social Dances

In the 1920s and 1930s, Harlem became a major hub of New York City nightlife and a prolific space for African American artistic creation. It was in Harlem’s nightclubs (also known as cabarets) that big band jazz became a sensation and where theatrical dance forms like tap dance, and social dances like the lindy hop and the Charleston, gained widespread popularity. These artistic developments contributed to an emerging modern black identity among the intellectuals and artists of the Harlem Renaissance. While the artists in these nightclubs tended to be African American, the more elaborate and expensive clubs catered almost exclusively to white patrons; black artists were often faced with the challenge of catering to white expectations while creatively developing their own art. The music and dance that emerged in these nightclubs also became the inspiration of many black modernist authors.

scholarly journals Beyoncé’s Slay Trick: The Performance of Black Camp and its Intersectional Politics

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 406-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Black Female ◽  
American Artist ◽  
Queer Culture ◽  
Black Queer

Abstract This article pays attention to African-American artist Beyonce Knowles and her performance of black camp. Beyonce’s stage persona and performances invite multiple ideological readings as to what pertains to her interpretation of gender, sexuality, and race. While cultural theory around the icon of Beyonce has focused on her feminist and racial politics as well as her politicization of the black female body, a queer reading applied from the perspective of camp performance will concentrate on the artist’s queer appeal and, most importantly, on her exposition of black camp, an intersection of feminist, racial and queer poetics. By examining video and live performances, the scope of this article is to underline those queer nuances inherent in Beyonce’s dramatisation of black femininity and the cultural pool she draws from for its effective staging. More specifically, since Beyonce plays with tropes and themes that are common in camp culture, her performance relies on a meta-camping effect that interacts with African-American queer culture. This article, thus, traces black queer traditions and discourses in the artist’s praxis of black camp.

“Life Is So Good”: Centenarians’ Autobiographies Between the Promise of Immortality and the Specter of Death

2020 ◽  
pp. 003022282096694
Author(s):  
Mita Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Loved One ◽  
The Arts ◽  
To Come ◽  
Music And The Arts

When we are trying to come to terms with death and dying, or the loss of a loved one, cultural practices can fulfill important functions. Literature, music, and the arts can help us cope with loss by expressing our emotions in a way which seems to be universal. This paper investigates the role of co-written centenarians’ autobiographies in this context. It focuses specifically on autobiographies by African American centenarians and white co-authors. The article investigates the dialogue between the centenarian and the co-author as a ritual for coming to terms with the co-author’s fear of mortality. It argues that for a white readership that defines itself as secular, the black centenarian – deeply religious himself – can serve as a surrogate and a role model. Just as he assures his middle-aged, white co-author that death is not to be feared, his autobiography may offer a secular readership a model for dying.

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