Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles
Author: Daniel Widener
ISBN: 9780822346791
From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians’ unions, through the development of community-based arts organizations, to the creation of searing films critiquing conditions in the black working class neighborhoods of a city touting its multiculturalism—Black Arts West documents the social and political significance of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second World War and the riots of 1992. Focusing on the lives and work of black writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers, Daniel Widener tells how black cultural politics changed over time, and how altered political realities generated new forms of artistic and cultural expression. His narrative is filled with figures invested in the politics of black art and culture in postwar Los Angeles, including not only African American artists but also black nationalists, affluent liberal whites, elected officials, and federal bureaucrats.Along with
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 2010-03-08
Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Performing Arts / General, History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Black/African American (BLCK)), Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Black/African American (BLCK))