Roots & Culture (eBook)

Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain

Eddie Chambers (Autor)

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2016
304 Seiten
I.B.Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78673-074-9 (ISBN)

Infos

How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as "e;Black Britain."e; Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature, music and the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity. This new book chronicles the extraordinary blend of social, political and cultural influences from the mid-1950s to late 1970s that gave rise to new heights of Black-British artistic expression in the 1980s. Eddie Chambers relates how and why during these decades "e;West Indians"e; became "e;Afro-Caribbeans,"e; and how in turn "e;Afro-Caribbeans"e; became "e;Black-British"e; - and the centrality of the arts to this important narrative. The British Empire, migration, Rastafari, the Anti-Apartheid struggle, reggae music, dub poetry, the ascendance of the West Indies cricket team and the coming of Margaret Thatcher - all of these factors, and others, have had a part to play in the compelling story of how the African Diaspora transformed itself to give rise to Black Britain.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.12.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-78673-074-X / 178673074X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78673-074-9 / 9781786730749