Nightmare Overhanging Darkly: Essays on African American Culture and ResistanceWith an analysis informed by more than two decades of cultural work and activism on the frontlines, Nightmare Overhanging Darkly reviews the historic tradition of Black cultural resistance to Western imperialism and oppression. In emphasizing the process by which creative artists have initiated and influenced social change, Dr. Acklyn Lynch issues a challenge to Black cultural workers and offers Black educators a blueprint for restructuring Black colleges and universities to best assist Black empowerment. Dr. Lynch centers his study on the 1940s to the 1990s and offers critiques of the major political activists and creative artists of that period -- including Paul Robeson, Sonia Sanchez, Charlie Parker, Malcolm X, Katherine Dunham, Jeff Donaldson, Alice Walker, George Jackson, Richard Wright, Toni Cade Bambara, Romare Bearden, KRS-ONE and others. Lynch reminds us that there is an organic link between art and resistance that moves beyond art for art's sake.--Publisher's description. |
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... song of the early war years , cutting across all political lines . On June 30 , 1940 , this rendition was played at ... songs are still unsung . 55 On June 23 , 1941 , Paul Robeson sang before 15,000 persons at New York's Lewisohn ...
... song of the early war years , cutting across all political lines . On June 30 , 1940 , this rendition was played at ... songs are still unsung . 55 On June 23 , 1941 , Paul Robeson sang before 15,000 persons at New York's Lewisohn ...
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... song . The spiritual song has given much of the substance to the music ; it has given the tonal element to the blues ; it has added the soul quality to jazz music . And then , there are other song forms , including children's songs ...
... song . The spiritual song has given much of the substance to the music ; it has given the tonal element to the blues ; it has added the soul quality to jazz music . And then , there are other song forms , including children's songs ...
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... song , the songs of allusion , other types of songs , such as game songs , even perhaps ritual songs . All of this carried through in the music we call jazz . Largely , that music stems from the earliest spirituals through ragtime and ...
... song , the songs of allusion , other types of songs , such as game songs , even perhaps ritual songs . All of this carried through in the music we call jazz . Largely , that music stems from the earliest spirituals through ragtime and ...
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Beyond Survival | 7 |
Black on Black Homicide | 27 |
Black Culture in the Early Forties | 53 |
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