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Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles

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Description for Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles Paperback. A social and cultural history of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second World War and the 1992 riots. Num Pages: 384 pages, 48 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJP; AB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
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 neighborhoods of a city touting its multiculturalism—Black Arts West documents the social and political significance of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second World War and the riots of 1992. 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822346791
SKU
V9780822346791
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About Daniel Widener
Daniel Widener is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

Reviews for Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles
“[An] often-dazzling and truly interdisciplinary study. . . . What truly dazzles about Widener's book is its range of concerns and competencies: music, theater, visual arts, film, literature, social history, intellectual history, urban studies, politics, and on and on. . . . Black Arts West is an often-brilliant, certainly essential study for anyone interested in the black arts movement and, ... Read more

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