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The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 - Contexts and legacies (Hardcover)
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The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 - Contexts and legacies (Hardcover)
Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 20
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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 arts negres). 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, Aime Cesaire, Andre Malraux and
Wole Soyinka. Described by Senegalese President Leopold Sedar
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.
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