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
centres 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 programmes. Many of the movement's
leading artists, including Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, Nikki
Giovanni, Woodie King, Haki Madhubuti, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure,
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. S.O.S-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.
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