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The Culture War in the Civil Rights Movement (Paperback)
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The Culture War in the Civil Rights Movement (Paperback)
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From Aretha Franklin and James Baldwin to Dick Gregory and Martin
Luther King, the civil rights movement deliberately used music,
art, theater, and literature as political weapons to broaden the
struggle and legitimize its appeal. Joe Street places these
cultural forms at the center of the civil rights struggle, arguing
that the time has come to recognize the extent to which African
American history and culture were vital elements of the movement,
calculated to broaden the movement's appeal within the larger black
community. He places considerable emphasis on Amiri Baraka's
interpretation of the importance of music and art to the
development of black nationalist thought in the 1960s, especially
as expressed in his jazz criticism and plays. Drawing upon a wide
variety of sources, from the Free Southern Theater to freedom
songs, from the Cuban radio broadcasts of Robert F. Williams to the
art of the Black Panther Party, Street encourages us to consider
the breadth of forces brought to bear as weapons in the struggle
for civil rights. Doing so also allows us to reconsider the roots
of Black Power, recognizing that it emerged both from within and as
a critique of the southern integrationist movement.
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