FESTAC '77 : 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture /
"Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC '77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. With a radically ambitious agenda underwritten by Nigeria's newfound oil...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Cape Town] : [London] :
Chimurenga ; Afterall Books,
2019.
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| Series: | Exhibition histories ;
10. |
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| Summary: | "Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC '77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. With a radically ambitious agenda underwritten by Nigeria's newfound oil wealth, FESTAC '77 would unfold as a complex, glorious and excessive culmination of a half-century of transatlantic and pan-Africanist cultural-political gatherings. Devised by Chimurenga and edited by Ntone Edjabe and Akin Adesokan, this is the first publication to consider FESTAC in all its cultural-historic complexity, addressing the planetary scale of the event alongside the personal and artistic encounters it made possible"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "Nigeria--Lagos--Kaduna, 15th January-12th February 1977"--Cover. "First published 2019 by Chimurenga and Afterall Books, in association with Asia Art Archive, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and RAW Material Company"--Page facing title page. |
| Physical Description: | 445 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, music, portraits ; 32 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783960984498 9780994678782 0994678789 9781846382123 1846382122 3960984499 |