Author: Arthur MonroePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
FESTAC 77
Author: Arthur MonroePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Author: Ife EnohoroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Pan-African Nation
Author: Andrew ApterPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226023567
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust. According to Apter, FESTAC expanded the horizons of blackness in Nigeria to mirror the global circuits of its economy. By showcasing masks, dances, images, and souvenirs from its many diverse ethnic groups, Nigeria forged a new national culture. In the grandeur of this oil-fed confidence, the nation subsumed all black and African cultures within its empire of cultural signs and erased its colonial legacies from collective memory. As the oil economy collapsed, however, cultural signs became unstable, contributing to rampant violence and dissimulation. The Pan-African Nation unpacks FESTAC as a historically situated mirror of production in Nigeria. More broadly, it points towards a critique of the political economy of the sign in postcolonial Africa.
The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966
Author: David MurphyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781383162
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In April 1966, thousands of artists, musicians, performers and writers from across Africa and its diaspora gathered in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to take part in the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Premier Festival Mondial des arts nègres). The international forum provided by the Dakar Festival showcased a wide array of arts and was attended by such celebrated luminaries as Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Aimé Césaire, André Malraux and Wole Soyinka. Described by Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, as 'the elaboration of a new humanism which this time will include all of humanity on the whole of our planet earth', the festival constituted a highly symbolic moment in the era of decolonization and the push for civil rights for black people in the United States. In essence, the festival sought to perform an emerging Pan-African culture, that is, to give concrete cultural expression to the ties that would bind the newly liberated African 'homeland' to black people in the diaspora. This volume is the first sustained attempt to provide not only an overview of the festival itself but also of its multiple legacies, which will help us better to understand the 'festivalization' of Africa that has occurred in recent decades with most African countries now hosting a number of festivals as part of a national tourism and cultural development strategy.
Celebration
Author: The Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Author: John LaheyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art festivals
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Celebration contains photographs and information about Festac '77. Journalist John Lahey traveled with photographer Richard Saunders to cover the event in Lagos, Nigeria. It was a month long celebration, which was just as much a political event as a cultural festival. Over 51 countries were represented at the festival. Stevie Wonder was in attendance and he gave a performance at Tafawa Balewa Square. There are many photographs throughout the publication, portraying performers, artists, the canoe regatta, and the Hawan Dawaki. The publication was distributed by the United States Information Service.
FESTAC 77
Author: Arthur MonroePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Author: Celebration
Author: John LaheyFestac?77: 2nd World Festival of Black and African Arts and Culture
Author: Wole SoyinkaPublisher:
ISBN: 9783960984498
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description