The African Jamaican Aesthetic
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The African Jamaican Aesthetic
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Author : Lisa Tomlinson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-01-23
The African Jamaican Aesthetic written by Lisa Tomlinson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
The African- Jamaican Aesthetics Cultural Retention and Transformation Across Borders centres on the use of African Jamaican Aesthetics in Jamaica’s literary traditions and its transformation and transmission in the diaspora.
African And Diaspora Aesthetics
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Author : Sarah Nuttall
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2006
African And Diaspora Aesthetics written by Sarah Nuttall and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Philosophy categories.
In Cameroon, a monumental "statue of liberty" is made from scrap metal. In Congo, a thriving popular music incorporates piercing screams and carnal dances. When these and other instantiations of the aesthetics of Africa and its diasporas are taken into account, how are ideas of beauty reconfigured? Scholars and artists take up that question in this invigorating, lavishly illustrated collection, which includes more than one hundred color images. Exploring sculpture, music, fiction, food, photography, fashion, and urban design, the contributors engage with and depart from canonical aesthetic theories as they demonstrate that beauty cannot be understood apart from ugliness. Highlighting how ideas of beauty are manifest and how they mutate, travel, and combine across time and distance, continental and diasporic writers examine the work of a Senegalese sculptor inspired by Leni Riefenstahl's photographs of Nuba warriors; a rich Afro-Brazilian aesthetic incorporating aspects of African, Jamaican, and American cultures; and African Americans' Africanization of the Santería movement in the United States. They consider the fraught, intricate spaces of the urban landscape in postcolonial South Africa; the intense pleasures of eating on Réunion; and the shockingly graphic images on painted plywood boards advertising "morality" plays along the streets of Ghana. And they analyze the increasingly ritualized wedding feasts in Cameroon as well as the limits of an explicitly "African" aesthetics. Two short stories by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto gesture toward what beauty might be in the context of political failure and postcolonial disillusionment. Together the essays suggest that beauty is in some sense future-oriented and that taking beauty in Africa and its diasporas seriously is a way of rekindling hope. Contributors. Rita Barnard, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mia Couto, Mark Gevisser, Simon Gikandi, Michelle Gilbert, Isabel Hofmeyr, William Kentridge, Dominique Malaquais, Achille Mbembe, Cheryl-Ann Michael, Celestin Monga, Sarah Nuttall, Patricia Pinho, Rodney Place, Els van der Plas, Pippa Stein, Françoise Vergès
Shine
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Author : Krista A. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-09
Shine written by Krista A. Thompson and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-09 with Art categories.
In Jamaican dancehalls competition for the video camera's light is stiff, so much so that dancers sometimes bleach their skin to enhance their visibility. In the Bahamas, tuxedoed students roll into prom in tricked-out sedans, staging grand red-carpet entrances that are designed to ensure they are seen being photographed. Throughout the United States and Jamaica friends pose in front of hand-painted backgrounds of Tupac, flashy cars, or brand-name products popularized in hip-hop culture in countless makeshift roadside photography studios. And visual artists such as Kehinde Wiley remix the aesthetic of Western artists with hip-hop culture in their portraiture. In Shine, Krista Thompson examines these and other photographic practices in the Caribbean and United States, arguing that performing for the camera is more important than the final image itself. For the members of these African diasporic communities, seeking out the camera's light—whether from a cell phone, Polaroid, or video camera—provides a means with which to represent themselves in the public sphere. The resulting images, Thompson argues, become their own forms of memory, modernity, value, and social status that allow for cultural formation within and between African diasporic communities.
The African Aesthetic
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Author : Kariamu Welsh
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1994-10-30
The African Aesthetic written by Kariamu Welsh and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-30 with Social Science categories.
While the field of aesthetics has long been dominated by European philosophy, recent inquiries have expanded the arena to accommodate different cultures as well as different definitions and meanings. Aesthetics often establishes the pattern that connects culture functions in a society. In African and African American societies it functions as the keeper of the traditions. The African aesthetic is visible from popular culture to the classical cultures. In all art forms, including body adornment arts, there emerge symbols, colors, rhythms, styles, and forms that function as artistic instruments and cultural histories. While acknowledging African cultural diversity, the focus here is on the commonalities in the aesthetic that make an Ibo recognize a Kikuyu and a Jamaican recognize a Chewa and an African American recognize a Sotho. The deep structure manifest in African cultures in the diaspora is proof of the aesthetic continuity. The debate continues over the exact nature of African aesthetics, and in this volume scholars and teachers in the fields of African and African American studies approach the subject from a broad range of disciplines. Dance, music, art, theatre, and literature are examined in order fully to appreciate and delineate what the specific qualities and aspects of an African aesthetic might be. Additionally, theoretical concepts and issues are discussed in order to define more clearly what is meant by an African aesthetic. The term African here applies to all Africans, both continental and diasporan, and encompasses historically used terms such as Negro, Black, and Afro-American. This thoughtful and thought-provoking volume will be a valuable addition to the readings of scholars and students in fields ranging from African studies to general philosophy and cultural studies.
Roots Of Jamaican Culture
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Author : Mervyn C. Alleyne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Roots Of Jamaican Culture written by Mervyn C. Alleyne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Jamaica categories.
The Language Of Dress
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Author : Steeve O. Buckridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Language Of Dress written by Steeve O. Buckridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Clothing and dress categories.
"His work contributes to the ongoing interest in the history of women and in the history of resistance."--Jacket.
Tropical Aesthetics Of Black Modernism
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Author : Samantha A. Noël
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-11
Tropical Aesthetics Of Black Modernism written by Samantha A. Noël and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-11 with Art categories.
In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. Noël investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century responded to and challenged colonial and other white-dominant regimes through tropicalist representation. With depictions of tropical scenery and landscapes situated throughout the African diaspora, performances staged in tropical settings, and bodily expressions of tropicality during Carnival, artists such as Aaron Douglas, Wifredo Lam, Josephine Baker, and Maya Angelou developed what Noël calls “tropical aesthetics”—using art to name and reclaim spaces of Black sovereignty. As a unifying element in the Caribbean modern art movement and the Harlem Renaissance, tropical aesthetics became a way for visual artists and performers to express their sense of belonging to and rootedness in a place. Tropical aesthetics, Noël contends, became central to these artists’ identities and creative processes while enabling them to craft alternative Black diasporic histories. In outlining the centrality of tropical aesthetics in the artistic and cultural practices of Black modernist art, Noël recasts understandings of African diasporic art.
Beauty And Culture
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Author : John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Beauty And Culture written by John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Aesthetics, African categories.
The Birth Of Cool
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Author : Carol Tulloch
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-01-28
The Birth Of Cool written by Carol Tulloch and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-28 with Social Science categories.
It is broadly recognized that black style had a clear and profound influence on the history of dress in the twentieth century, with black culture and fashion having long been defined as 'cool'. Yet despite this high profile, in-depth explorations of the culture and history of style and dress in the African diaspora are a relatively recent area of enquiry. The Birth of Cool asserts that 'cool' is seen as an arbiter of presence, and relates how both iconic and 'ordinary' black individuals and groups have marked out their lives through the styling of their bodies. Focusing on counter- and sub-cultural contexts, this book investigates the role of dress in the creation and assertion of black identity. From the gardenia corsage worn by Billie Holiday to the work-wear of female African-Jamaican market traders, through to the home-dressmaking of black Britons in the 1960s, and the meaning of a polo-neck jumper as depicted in a 1934 self-portrait by African-American artist Malvin Gray Johnson, this study looks at the ways in which the diaspora experience is expressed through self-image. Spanning the late nineteenth century to the modern day, the book draws on ready-made and homemade fashion, photographs, paintings and films, published and unpublished biographies and letters from Britain, Jamaica, South Africa, and the United States to consider how personal style statements reflect issues of racial and cultural difference. The Birth of Cool is a powerful exploration of how style and dress both initiate and confirm change, and the ways in which they expresses identity and resistance in black culture.
Natural Mysticism
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Author : Kwame Senu Neville Dawes
language : en
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Release Date : 1999
Natural Mysticism written by Kwame Senu Neville Dawes and has been published by Peepal Tree Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Dawes takes an in-depth look at reggae as an artistic form, exploring how reggae is both uniquely Jamaican and a music of world wide appeal. His writing communicates his infectious enthusiasm for his subject.