The Black Arts Movement of the Black Power Era

[IllmaticDelta]

We know about the Harlem Renaissance but its more militant descendant is less talked about.

The Black Arts Movement (or BAM) was an African American-led art movement, active during the 1960s and 1970s.[3] Through activism and art, BAM created new cultural institutions and conveyed a message of black pride.[4]

Famously referred to by Larry Neal as the “aesthetic and spiritual sister of Black Power,"[5] BAM applied these same political ideas to art and literature.[6] The movement resisted traditional Western influences and found new ways to present the black experience.

The poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is widely recognized as the founder of BAM.[7] In 1965, he established the Black Arts Repertory Theatre School (BART/S) in Harlem.[8] Baraka's example inspired many others to create organizations across the United States.[4] While these organizations were short-lived, their work has had a lasting influence.

Harlem Ren was about ADOS affirming their identity and culture through the lens of being Negro or Colored-Americans; The Black Arts movement took it a step further by not only highlighting their "Blackness" but more importantly, their "Africaness." BAM is also the reason Aframs started championing all things African: giving themselves African names, doing trad African dances, sporting African attire and becoming extreme Pan-Africanist. While this was going on, Aframs also put African or Africana Studies on the map, making sure the entire Afro-Diaspora got its shine in PWI's since they had already made sure of this at HBCUs years/decades prior

 

[IllmaticDelta]

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kwanzaa

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Odunde festival in philly

 

[get these nets]

mural of Amiri Baraka on Clinton Avenue

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Jersey

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The Harlem Renaissance gets more play in white academic circles but BAM actually had the wider influence across multiple races and ethnicities

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[IllmaticDelta]

BAM era music and poetry set the stage for Rap

Spoiler

 

[IllmaticDelta]

What they now label as Afrofurturism, came straight of the Black Arts Movement

 

[Supper]

Will read through this later. But, I always associated the arts with the black renaissance era and militancy with the black power era. But, we know the renaissance era had it's own fair share of militancy with the red summer riots and the black power movement had it's own artistic element as well.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Will read through this later. But, I always associated the arts with the black renaissance era and militancy with the black power era.

Yeah, Harlem Renaissance had the arts of the early "Jazz Ages" and New Negro era

Black Power Movements' artistic side was the Black Arts Movement where they eschewed the label "Negro" and championed Black/African

But, we know the renaissance era had it's own fair share of militancy with the red summer riots and the black power movement had it's own artistic element as well.

true

 

[IllmaticDelta]

 

[IllmaticDelta]

@K.O.N.Y

it relates to your spoken word/hiphop question...Amari shouts out the spoken word part (13:00 second vid) on this 1940s r&b record as an influence

 

[Amo Husserl]

 

[KingsOfKings]

Rep to you sir