Articles

Araeen, R. (2004). The Success and the Failure of Black Art. Third Text, 18(2), 135–152. https://doi-org.databases.pennhighlands.edu/10.1080/0952882042000199669

Babb, V. (2020). The Past is Never Past: The Call and Response between Marvel’s Black Panther and Early Black Speculative Fiction. African American Review, 53(2), 95–109. https://doi-org.databases.pennhighlands.edu/10.1353/afa.2020.0015

Barlow, W. (2017). Black Music On Radio During the Jazz Age. African American Review, 50(4), 934–937. https://doi-org.databases.pennhighlands.edu/10.1353/afa.2017.0148

Gardner, R. P. (2020). The Present Past: Black Authors and the Anti-Black Selective Tradition in Children’s Literature. Journal of Children’s Literature, 46(2), 8–18.

Hall, V. A. (2013). Black Aesthetics, Art and Social Justice. Journal of Intercultural Disciplines, 11, 51–57. https://databases.pennhighlands.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=110609414&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Harris, T. (2017). The Barbershop in Black Literature. African American Review, 50(4), 547–553. https://doi-org.databases.pennhighlands.edu/10.1353/afa.2017.0096

Holland II, M. R. (2021). Performing Religious Music of the African American Experience. Choral Journal, 61(11), 8–16. https://databases.pennhighlands.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=150461036&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Hoofard, J. (2007). An Interview with Toni Morrison: “Thinking About a Story.” Writing on the Edge, 17(2), 86–99. https://databases.pennhighlands.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ofs&AN=507974877&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Karenga, M. (2018). Living and Singing Soul with Aretha: Respecting Our Awesome and Soulful Selves. Journal of Pan African Studies, 12(5), 2–5. https://databases.pennhighlands.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ofs&AN=133153399&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Leary, J. P. (2010). Havana reads the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Nicolás Guillén, and the dialectics of transnational American literature. Comparative Literature Studies, 47(2), 133–158. https://doi-org.databases.pennhighlands.edu/10.1353/cls.2010.0007

Marriott, D. (2017). Introduction: Black Experimental Poetics. Black Scholar, 47(1), 1–2. https://doi-org.databases.pennhighlands.edu/10.1080/00064246.2017.1264826

Raengo, A., & Cramer, L. M. (2020). The Unruly Archives of Black Music Videos. JCMS: Journal of Cinema & Media Studies, 59(2), 138–144. https://databases.pennhighlands.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=141941631&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Rice, A. (2013). Viewing Inside the Invisible: African Atlantic Art in the 1990s. Slavery & Abolition, 34(2), 308–324. https://doi-org.databases.pennhighlands.edu/10.1080/0144039X.2013.791180

Roach, M. (2012). What “Jazz” Means to Me. Black Scholar, 42(2), 37–40. https://doi-org.databases.pennhighlands.edu/10.5816/blackscholar.42.2.0037

Salois, K. (2014). Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation. Journal of Popular Music Studies (Wiley-Blackwell), 26(2/3), 414–418. https://doi-org.databases.pennhighlands.edu/10.1111/jpms.12086

Williams, J. A. (1998). Images: History, Life, Literature. Community Review, 16, 128.

Books

Chapman, A. (2001). Black voices : An anthology of African-American literature. New York: Signet Classic. 810-989 B5619 C3661 2001

Banfield, W. C. (2011). Representing black music culture : Then, now, and when again? Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. 780.92 B2242 2011

Dallas Museum of Art. (1989). Black art ancestral legacy : The African impulse in African-American art. Dallas, Tex.: Dallas Museum of Art ; [Distributed by H.N. Abrams]. 704.0396 B5611 1989

English, D., Barat, C., Lowry, G. D., Wilson, M., & Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). (2019). Among others : Blackness at MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art. 704.0396 En363 2019

Godfrey, M., Whitley, Z., Tate Modern (Gallery), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art., & Brooklyn Museum. (2017). Soul of a nation : Art in the age of black power. New York: Distributed Art ,. 700.89 So83 G5436 2017

Golden, M. (2011). The word : Black writers talk about the transformative power of reading and writing : Interviews. New York: Broadway Paperbacks. 810.8 W8911 g5656 2011

Mance, A. M. (2007). Inventing black women : African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 811-209896073 M3119 2007

Patton, V. K. (2000). Women in chains : The legacy of slavery in Black women’s fiction. Albany: State University of New York Press. 813.509 P2787 2000

Singh, A. (1976). The novels of the Harlem Renaissance : Twelve black writers, 1923-1933. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 813.03 Si644 1976

Sullivan, D. (2011). Keep on pushing : Black power music from blues to hip-hop. Chicago, Ill.: Lawrence Hill Books. 781.64089 Su535 2011

Taylor, C. A. (2000). The tragedy and comedy of resistance : Reading modernity through Black women’s fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 813.509 T2127 2000

Tidwell, J. E., & Ragar, C. R. (2007). Montage of a dream : The art and life of Langston Hughes. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 818.5209 H8745m T439 2007

Links

This February, we’re celebrating Black History Month at The Met.

Represent: 200 Years of African American Art and this accompanying teacher resource celebrate the innovation, creativity, and determination of African American artists.

African Americans have made significant contributions to the art of music in many genres.

June is African American Music Appreciation Month! Created by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, this month celebrates the African American musical influences that comprise an essential part of our nation’s treasured cultural heritage.

SAAM is home to one of the most significant collections of works by African American artists in the world.

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