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Black Arts West Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles

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ISBN-10: 0822346796

ISBN-13: 9780822346791

Edition: 2010

Authors: Daniel Widener

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From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians' unions, through the development of community-based arts organizations, to the creation of searing films critiquing conditions in the black working-class neighbourhoods of a city touting its multiculturalism-Black Arts Westdocuments the social and political significance of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second World War and the 1992 riots. Focusing on the lives and work of black writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers, Daniel Widener tells how black cultural politics changed over time, and how altered political realities generated new forms of…    
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Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/8/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction Acts of Culture, or, Maybe the People Would Be the Times
Cultural Democracy in the Racial Metropolis
Hollywood Scuffle: The Second World War, Los Angeles, and the Politics of Wartime Representation
The Negro as Human Being? Desegregation and the Black Arts Imperative
Writing Watts: The Rise and Fall of Cultural Liberalism
Message from the Grassroots
Notes from the Underground: Free Jazz and Black Power in South Los Angeles
Studios in the Street: Creative Community and Visual Arts
The Arms of Criticism: The Cultural Politics of Urban Insurgency
Festivals and Funerals
An Intimate Enemy: Culture and the Contradictions of Bradleyism
How to Survive in South Central: Black Film as Class Critique
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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