Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.
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.
David Murphy is Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde.
AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction. The Performance of Pan-Africanism: Staging the African Renaissance at the First World Festival of Negro ArtsDavid MurphyI Contexts1 ‘The Real Heart of the Festival’: The Exhibition of L’Art nègre at the Musée DynamiqueCédric Vincent2 Dance at the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts: Of ‘Fabulous Dancers’ and Negritude UnderminedHélène Neveu Kringelbach3 Staging Culture: Senghor, Malraux and the Theatre Programme at the First World Festival of Negro ArtsBrian Quinn4 Making History: Performances of the Past at the 1966 World Festival of Negro ArtsRuth Bush5 ‘The Next Best Thing to Being There’: Covering the 1966 Dakar Festival and its Legacy in Black Popular MagazinesTsitsi JajiII Legacies6 ‘Negritude is Dead’: Performing the African Revolution at the First Pan-African Cultural Festival (Algiers, 1969)Samuel D. Anderson7 Beyond Negritude: Black Cultural Citizenship and the Arab Question in FESTAC ’77Andrew Apter8 Cultural Festivals in Senegal: Archives of Tradition, Mediations of ModernityFerdinand de Jong9 FESMAN at 50: Pan-Africanism, Visual Modernism and the Archive of the Global ContemporaryElizabeth Harney10 PANAFEST: A Festival Complex RevisitedDominique Malaquais and Cédric VincentBooks and Films about the 1966 FestivalBibliographyIndex
'A terrific book that combines an impressive range of both new and emerging voices with leading international specialists located in transnational settings, and that will be of tremendous relevance to students and scholars in fields as diverse as cultural studies, performance studies, French and Francophone Studies, History and African Studies.'Dominic Thomas
