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Antagonistic Cooperation - Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture (Paperback)
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Antagonistic Cooperation - Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture (Paperback)
Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
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Ralph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as
"antagonistic cooperation." Both collaborative and competitive,
musicians play with and against one another to create art and
community. In Antagonistic Cooperation, Robert G. O'Meally shows
how this idea runs throughout twentieth-century African American
culture to provide a new history of Black creativity and
aesthetics. From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of
Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni
Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington,
O'Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and
literature have informed one another. He argues that these artists
drew on the improvisatory nature of jazz and the techniques of
collage not as a way to depict a fractured or broken sense of
Blackness but rather to see the Black self as beautifully layered
and complex. They developed a shared set of methods and motives
driven by the belief that art must involve a sense of community.
O'Meally's readings of these artists and their work emphasize how
they have not only contributed to understanding of Black history
and culture but also provided hope for fulfilling the broken
promises of American democracy.
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