The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

by JamesEdwardSmethurst (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $48.94

  James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the US. The Movement, he argues, changed American attitudes to the relationship between popular culture and high art and transformed public funding for the arts.