Arts

 

The arts are the most visible form of cultural expression and have often been the lifeblood of revolutionary movements. Art, literature, music and performance have been the backdrop to the Haitian Revolution, Garveyism during the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Africa’s and the Caribbean’s independence movements of the 1960s & 1970s, and the radical Hip Hop generation of the 1980s & 1990s.

Below are some great works on Black arts and music.


The Power of Black Music, Samuel A. Floyd, jr.

It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop, M. K. Asante, jr.

Literary Garveyism, Tony Martin

Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin

Mi Revalueshanary Fren, Linton Kwesi Johnson

Blues People, Amiri Baraka


 
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