ENGL 3773 - [The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement]

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 3773) (CA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Next offered 2013-2014.

M. Crawford.

How do visual art, theater, music, poetry, and novels come together in particular cultural movements? How does the modernism of the 1920s and ’30s differ from the experimentations that shaped the 1960s and ’70s? How are artists influenced by social movements? How does art influence the very direction of social movements? This course will compare the 1920s and ’30s Harlem Renaissance and the 1960s and ’70s Black Arts movement. Both social movements produce a stunning interplay of words, images, music, dance, assimilation, and resistance. The selected artists may include Josephine Baker, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, Sun Ra, James Brown, Amiri Baraka, Gil Scott-Heron, Nikki Giovanni, Romare Bearden, and the AfriCobra collective.