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Art history

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
This Bayly Museum exhibition at the University of Virginia showcases objects "chosen both to exemplify African aesthetic and moral principles and to display some of the finest pieces in the Bayly's large collection. Most of the pieces in the exhibit come from West African societies.
Africa South of the Sahara: African Art on the Internet
A very extensive A-Z list of links to African Art (Stanford University Libraries.)
Guide to Papers of African American Artists in the Archives of American Art
"The Archives of American Art, founded in 1954, has assembled the world's largest collection of material documenting the visual arts of the United States. Affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution since 1970, the Archives gathers, preserves, and makes available to scholars the original records of American painters, sculptors, craftsmen, collectors, and dealers, as well as those of critics, historians, curators, societies, and institutions concerned 'with art in America.... Among the Archives' collections are the personal papers of more than fifty African American painters, sculptors, and print makers from the late 19th century to the present."
Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection
"Approximately 100 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper provide a thematic journey that documents strategies employed by 20th-century African American artists in creating artistic and racial identities. The works are borrowed from the collection of David C. Driskell, a professor at the University of Maryland and a pioneering scholar of African American art history."
Research Guide to African Art and Archaeology
A comprehensive research tool with lists of surveys, bibliographies, guides, biographical sources, programs, electronic indexes, directories, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, maps, history, images, symbols, museums and other art ethnology collections, photography, and cultural heritage. (Boston University Libraries.)

Dance

Alvin Ailey: American Dance Theater
"Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) was borne from a now-fabled performance that took place on March 30, 1958, in which Alvin Ailey and a group of young, black, modern dancers performed at the 92nd Street Young Men's Hebrew Association in New York City. The Company has since earned a reputation as one of America's most acclaimed international, cultural ambassadors."

Film

The Black Press: Soldiers with out Swords
Contains information about African American journalists and the PBS documentary on this subject. The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords "is an engaging historical account that tells the story of the pioneering men and women of the Black press who gave voice to Black America."

Literature

African American Pamphlets
"The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love."
Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Provides short biographies, bibliographies and links to other web-based resources for African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance. From the Academy of American Poets.
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938
American Memory: Born in Slavery: Stave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938.

Research in African literatures (Online)
"Research in African Literatures , the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide, serves as a stimulating vehicle in English for research on the oral and written literatures of Africa. Reviews of current scholarly books are included in every number, often presented as review essays, and a forum offers readers the opportunity to respond to issues raised in articles and book reviews. The journal, which is published quarterly, also provides information on African publishing as well as announcements of importance to Africanists, and frequently prints notes and queries of literary interest." Included here is a Table of Contents to material the Library has in print.

Music

The Blue Highway
"The history of the blues is more than a musical chronology. The blues was born the day the West African shoreline fell from the horizon. It was raised amid the institutionalized savagery of the Deep South and flourished in the dark heart of America's largest cities. We owe the blues to those who bore the pain of enslavement behind the frightful shadows of our collective soul. The Blue Highway, then, is dedicated to the men and women who traveled beyond our ignorant place, and to those who could not."

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