Eddie Chambers

Roots & Culture (eBook, PDF)

Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as "Black Britain." Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature, music and the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity. This new book chronicles the extraordinary blend of social, political and cultural influences from the mid-1950s to late 1970s that gave rise to new heights of Black-British artistic expression in the 1980s. Eddie Chambers relates how and why during these decades "West Indians" became "Afro-Caribbeans," and how in turn "Afro-Caribbeans" became "Black-British" - and the centrality of the arts to this important narrative. The British Empire, migration, Rastafari, the Anti-Apartheid struggle, reggae music, dub poetry, the ascendance of the West Indies cricket team and the coming of Margaret Thatcher - all of these factors, and others, have had a part to play in the compelling story of how the African Diaspora transformed itself to give rise to Black Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786730749
• Artikelnr.: 47537716

Autorenporträt

Eddie Chambers is Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has been writing about African Diaspora and Black British art practices for several decades and his scholarship includes Black Artists in British Art (I. B. Tauris, 2014) and Roots & Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain (I. B. Tauris, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction Chapter One
De street weh dem seh pave wid gold Chapter Two
The Black 70s Chapter Three
Rasta This and Dreadlocks That Chapter Four
Leggo de Pen Chapter Five
Africa: The Call of the Continent Chapter Six
Fyah! Chapter Seven
Picture on the Wall Chapter Eight
Failing the Cricket Test Chapter Nine
Conclusion
(Dawning of a) New Era

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Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One - De street weh dem seh pave wid gold
Chapter Two - The Black 70s
Chapter Three - Rasta This and Dreadlocks That
Chapter Four - Leggo de Pen
Chapter Five - Africa: The Call of the Continent
Chapter Six - Fyah!
Chapter Seven - Picture on the Wall
Chapter Eight - Failing the Cricket Test
Chapter Nine - Conclusion - (Dawning of a) New Era