The African aesthetic : keeper of the traditions / edited by Kariamu Welsh-Asante.

Other author Welsh-Asante, Kariamu.
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, ©1993.
Descriptionxv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
African American aesthetics.
Aesthetics, African.

SeriesContributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 153, 0069-9624 ;
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 153. ^A477074
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.
Contents 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.
Local noteLittle-297062--305131003385W
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 92005438
ISBN0313265496 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BH221.U5 A47 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold