Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History
- ISBN-10
- 019508604X
- ISBN-13
- 9780195086041
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Author
- Sterling Stuckey
Description
(Not enough room in Review field) "In this marvelous collection of essays by one of the gifted American historians of our time Sterling Stuckey brings together his ripe knowledge of the rich interplay of history, anthropology, folklore, musicology, and literature in our understanding of the African American experience. Stuckey is relentless in his pursuit of the African connection and of the central importance of Afrcian American culture in American life andhistory. Going through the Storm is one of those books that will have to be taken seriosly by students of American culture for years to come."--Otey M. Scruggs, Syracuse University "Going through the Storm is a work of intellectual breadth and compelling insight....SterlingStuckey, with remarkable brilliance and insight, cuts through the centuries of obfuscation to rescue intact the black aesthetic which informs the common culture of black and white America in significant ways. Going Through the Storm renders all apologies for African art in any of its forms, obsolete, and all questions of its pervasiveness superfluous. The history of the African American aesthetic has finally been placed in its proper perspective as a significant component of Americancultural history."--C. Eric Lincoln, Duke University "Written with elegance, imagination, passion, commitment, and a profound understanding of art and history, Going through the Storm is a compelling, multi-disciplinary study of major importance. Underscoring the "revolutionary ethic atthe heart of song," Professor Stuckey demonstrates with brilliant insight and poignant sensitivity the ways in which African American culture (language, music, dance, folklore, poetry, and fiction) functions in interpreting the past, affirming Black humanity, and resisting forms of oppression. With an intimate knowledge of African artistic traditions and of the sacred and secular art forms of Negro slaves, Stuckey reconstructs the aesthetic and spiritual history of Blacks through exciting andexacting research on the achievements of artists and intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass, Sterling Brown, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Bernice Johnson Reagon."--Miriam DeCosta-Willis, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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