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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kariamu Welsh-Asante |
| ISBN: | 0275951170 9780275951177 2759511700 |
| OCLC Number: | 56700052 |
| Description: | xv, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The aesthetic conceptualization of Nzuri / Kariamu Welsh-Asante -- The African American aesthetic as optimal consciousness / Linda James Myers -- The African Diasporan ritual mode / Zadia Ife -- Location theory and African aesthetics / Molefi Kete Asante -- The African aesthetic and national consciousness / Dona Marimba Richards -- Mpai : libation oratory / Abu Shardow Abarry -- Aesthetic practices among African American women / Sonja Peterson-Lewis -- Jazz literature and the African American aesthetic / George L. Starks, Jr. -- The search for Afrocentric visual aesthetic / Robert Douglas -- Aesthetics and African American musical expression / Warren Swindell -- The aesthetics of Nommo in the films of Spike Lee / Ronald Jemal Stephens -- Zora Neale Hurston's transmutation and synthesis of Nommo : reclamation of a legacy / Carolyn L. Holmes. Art for life's sake : African art as a reflection of an Afrocentric cosmology / Dele Jegede -- A bibliographic essay on African aesthetics / Kariamu Welsh-Asante. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 153. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Kariamu Welsh-Asante. |
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