The Black Arts Movement

The Black Arts Movement and the New Jazz Avant-Garde (1960's)



Table of Contents

Introduction2

Discussion3

Jazz music5

Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement5

New Jazz Avant-Garde7

Free jazz music9

Albert Ayler9

John William Coltrane10

Ornette Coleman10

Sun Ra11

Artistic and cultural impact11

Social impact13

Political impact of the Black Art Movement14

Impact on African American identity15

Conclusion16

References18

The Black Arts Movement and the New Jazz Avant-Garde (1960's)

Introduction

The black Arts movement of the 1960's which is also commonly recognized as BAM is the artistic aspect of the Black Art Movement of the mid-nineteenth century. Initially the Movement initiated in Harlem by the famous activist and artist Amiri Baraka and later on persuaded by other prominent writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, Rosa Grey and Hoyt W. Fuller. The assassination of the Malcolm -X also significantly contributed towards the movement. As describe by the “Time Magazine” The Black Art Movement is the solitary most controversial movement throughout the history of the African American culture. The Black Art Repertory Theatre regarded as one of the prominent institution representing the black art movement.

The term avant-garde jazz has existed since the 1950s; however, it gained a new and stronger role after the utterly unbound free jazz of the 1960s, built around 1980 with the free wireless, connected with musicians such as James Blood Ulmer (guitar) and Ronald Shannon Jackson (drums), better known first between bound and unbound levels of jazz styles. In free-free radio melody and chords played on hard bound rhythm as the radio happens; follow the style of the Soul, the exact tough and rugged style of music Afro-American origin in the 1960s. Around 1990, a broad style range of different bands in the then-new New Yorkers live music site Knitting Factory recorded as LP or CD and markets around the world so successful that people wanted a term for this first as a conglomerate appearing new style range.

The black arts movement, Black Art Movement, and Pan-Africanism overlapped in both time and space. What this means is that supporters of these movements interacted with each other and also shared common intellectual and cultural spaces. The women involved in these movements encountered each other in public demonstrations, theaters, and art galleries as well as on the printed page, on the radio, and on television. These female leaders read literature debating the existence of a definable and tangible black existence and raised pertinent questions concerning the impact of gender on this black identity.

Discussion

The Black Art Movement is the most significant era in the history of the African American literature. The movement inspired the black people to establish their own magazines, journals, publishing houses, and art institutions. The movement led to the initiation of the dedicated learning programs in schools and universities throughout the America in the mid nineteenth century which designed to cater the underrepresented black population (Emmanuel 2005, Pp.542-651). The Black Art Movement of the mid nineteenth century successfully influenced the world of literature, by portraying distinct ethnic voices together. Before the inception of the black American movement, the canon of American literature lacked ...