Author: Arthur Monroe
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ISBN:
Category : World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
FESTAC 77
Author: Arthur Monroe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Festac ́77: 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Author: Ntone Edjabe
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN: 9783960984498
Category : Arts, African
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists, and scholars from Africa and the Black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC '77, 11 years after the First World Festival of Negro Arts. This is the first publication to consider FESTAC in all its cultural-historic complexity, addressing the planetary scale of the event alongside the personal and artistic encounters it made possible.
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN: 9783960984498
Category : Arts, African
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists, and scholars from Africa and the Black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC '77, 11 years after the First World Festival of Negro Arts. This is the first publication to consider FESTAC in all its cultural-historic complexity, addressing the planetary scale of the event alongside the personal and artistic encounters it made possible.
Festac?77: 2nd World Festival of Black and African Arts and Culture
Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783960984498
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783960984498
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Pan-African Nation
Author: Andrew Apter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226023567
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust. According to Apter, FESTAC expanded the horizons of blackness in Nigeria to mirror the global circuits of its economy. By showcasing masks, dances, images, and souvenirs from its many diverse ethnic groups, Nigeria forged a new national culture. In the grandeur of this oil-fed confidence, the nation subsumed all black and African cultures within its empire of cultural signs and erased its colonial legacies from collective memory. As the oil economy collapsed, however, cultural signs became unstable, contributing to rampant violence and dissimulation. The Pan-African Nation unpacks FESTAC as a historically situated mirror of production in Nigeria. More broadly, it points towards a critique of the political economy of the sign in postcolonial Africa.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226023567
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust. According to Apter, FESTAC expanded the horizons of blackness in Nigeria to mirror the global circuits of its economy. By showcasing masks, dances, images, and souvenirs from its many diverse ethnic groups, Nigeria forged a new national culture. In the grandeur of this oil-fed confidence, the nation subsumed all black and African cultures within its empire of cultural signs and erased its colonial legacies from collective memory. As the oil economy collapsed, however, cultural signs became unstable, contributing to rampant violence and dissimulation. The Pan-African Nation unpacks FESTAC as a historically situated mirror of production in Nigeria. More broadly, it points towards a critique of the political economy of the sign in postcolonial Africa.
Celebration
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Category : Art festivals
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Art festivals
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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FESTAC '77
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Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
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Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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FESTAC 77
Author: Arthur Monroe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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ISBN:
Category : World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966
Author: David Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781383162
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In April 1966, thousands of artists, musicians, performers and writers from across Africa and its diaspora gathered in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to take part in the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Premier Festival Mondial des arts nègres). The international forum provided by the Dakar Festival showcased a wide array of arts and was attended by such celebrated luminaries as Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Aimé Césaire, André Malraux and Wole Soyinka. Described by Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, as 'the elaboration of a new humanism which this time will include all of humanity on the whole of our planet earth', the festival constituted a highly symbolic moment in the era of decolonization and the push for civil rights for black people in the United States. In essence, the festival sought to perform an emerging Pan-African culture, that is, to give concrete cultural expression to the ties that would bind the newly liberated African 'homeland' to black people in the diaspora. This volume is the first sustained attempt to provide not only an overview of the festival itself but also of its multiple legacies, which will help us better to understand the 'festivalization' of Africa that has occurred in recent decades with most African countries now hosting a number of festivals as part of a national tourism and cultural development strategy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781383162
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In April 1966, thousands of artists, musicians, performers and writers from across Africa and its diaspora gathered in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to take part in the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Premier Festival Mondial des arts nègres). The international forum provided by the Dakar Festival showcased a wide array of arts and was attended by such celebrated luminaries as Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Aimé Césaire, André Malraux and Wole Soyinka. Described by Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, as 'the elaboration of a new humanism which this time will include all of humanity on the whole of our planet earth', the festival constituted a highly symbolic moment in the era of decolonization and the push for civil rights for black people in the United States. In essence, the festival sought to perform an emerging Pan-African culture, that is, to give concrete cultural expression to the ties that would bind the newly liberated African 'homeland' to black people in the diaspora. This volume is the first sustained attempt to provide not only an overview of the festival itself but also of its multiple legacies, which will help us better to understand the 'festivalization' of Africa that has occurred in recent decades with most African countries now hosting a number of festivals as part of a national tourism and cultural development strategy.
The Afro-Black Connection
Author: Sylvia Moore
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Visitors Guide to the Festival
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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