Friday, March 2, 2012

What sort of art is protest?

Tuesday, 6 March – The Art of Protest

• Read Reed Intro, Ch 1-4
• Examine Reed’s book website: http://art-of-protest.net/tvreedhome.html 
• Check out his teaching site: http://libarts.wsu.edu/english/TV%20Reed.html 
• Look at his cultural politics resources: http://culturalpolitics.net/about  

• Look at artists in Perez, Ch 6: Face, Heart. Pick the artwork that speaks to you most. Learn about it and tell us. Bring in something about it from the web.

What sort of “art” is protest? How do social movements create culture? Which social movements do you know the most about? Which ones would you like to learn more about? Which arts have engaged the feminist issues you care about most? How do you know? How is women’s studies involved? 


From Reed 2005: xiii (display shape is mine): "This book hopes to prove useful to three main types of readers. 
 
= For students and general readers new to the subject, it presents an introduction to social movements through the rich, kaleidoscopic lens of artistic and cultural expression.

= For scholars of social movements, it offers intriguing observations on particular movements and useful insights into various ways to think about the relations between culture and social change.

= For activists, it seeks to offer inspiration and a tool kit of ideas about how art and culture can further social movement goals.

These three sets of readers overlap, of course, in the form of scholar activists or activist students, but to the extent that they sometimes speak different languages, or have different interests, I hope that each type of reader will be patient when encountering portions of chapters that may speak more clearly to another of these audiences. Finding a style equally appropriate to all has been my goal, but no doubt I have not always succeeded." 

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SNCC Freedom Singers and the Civil Rights ...

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SNCC Freedom Singers and the Civil Rights Movement ... Freedom Songs The Music of the Civil Rights ...

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The Black Panther Party - YouTube

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A tribute to the Black Panthers. In Oakland Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton founded the Black Panthers in ...


"'Panther Baby,' From Prisoner To Professor," on TELL ME MORE from NPR News, 4 March 2012: "Jamal Joseph was a 15-year-old honor student when joining the Black Panther Party. He later faced a 12-year sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary for helping fugitive Panther members. Behind bars, he taught a theater group, and now he teaches the arts at Columbia University. His new book is part of Tell Me More's Black History Month memoir series."  Read the transcript, hear the interview here
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Poetry Everywhere: "What Kind of Times Are These ...

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Adrienne Rich reads her poem "What Kind of Times Are These. ... 5 poems by Audre Lordeby ...
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SPARC: Great Wall of LA: Donna Deitch ...

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1976-Present: The Great Wall of Los Angeles 1/2 mile long Mural/Education Project is one of Los Angeles ...

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Social Movements & Culture Site   
Movement Sites Links: 


   
NEW: Occupy Wall Street 
    Abolition of Slavery 
    American Indian / Native American Activism 
    Anarchist Movements 
    Anti-AIDs Activism 
    Anti-Nuclear Movements 
    Art Activism 
    Asian American / Pacific Islander Movements 
    Black Nationalism & Black Arts 
    Chicano/a Latino/a Movimientos 
    Civil Rights Movements 
    Disability Rights Movements 
    Environmental Movements 
    Gay / Lesbian / Bi / Trans / Queer Movements 
    Global Justice Networks 
    Labor Movements 
    Media Activism 
    Socialist Movements 
    Women's Movements & Feminist Sites 
    Multi-Issue Movement Sites 



What ARE these "social movements? Reed calls them (xiii) "the unauthorized, unofficial, anti-institutional, collective action of ordinary citizens trying to change their world...." (xiv): "...'progressive' social movements like the ones at the heart of this book have been crucial in taking the important but vague and unfulfilled promises of 'freedom' and 'democracy' announced in the [American] revolution's best known manifesto, the Declaration of Independence, and given them more reality, more substance, and wider applicability to the majority of people -- women, people of color, the poor -- who were initially excluded from those promises.... Movements, in contrast to their tamer, more institutionalized cousins, political parties and lobbyists, seek to bring about social change primarily through the medium of 'repeated public displays,' or, as I would put it, through dramatic action." (xvi-xv): "...as centrally important as dramatic, public action has been to social movements, it is by no means the totality of their activity, or the sole source of their impact...dramatic actions are themselves the products of usually rather undramatic, mundane daily acts of preparation...the impact of dramatic moments is only as great as the follow-up forms of daily organizing that accompany them...dramatic movement events happen in other, less celebrated spaces, including apartment living rooms, academic offices, and classrooms."

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Perez 2007: 306: "The Chicana artists whose 'spirit work' I have studied here display the courage to attempt to inspire or provoke greater balance between who we appear to be ('face') and who we long to be ('heart'). They teach us to perceive and imagine differently, and that seeing is a learned, revealed, ever-changing, and transformative process, whether we do so through the mind, the eyes, the heart, or the spirit. If we are receptive, their work contributes toward leading us to beliefs and practices of greater personal and social integrity and therefore harmony.... we are inescapably, in visible and invisible ways, each other's other selves...."

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From the Washington Post, 2 March 2012: C1, C5 [italics mine]: "An orchestra as an agent of feminist change? ....'On the surface of it, it seems quite off-mission,' says Marin Alsop, the BSO’s music director (and known to far too many simply as 'the woman conductor'). ...'What's going on is a role change,' Rosen says. 'Orchestras are looking at themselves as being responsible citizens in their communities.... WoW is not setting out to reform orchestras -- only, modestly, all of society.... And it's not a bad idea to turn discussions of change into a celebration. 'Having fun,' Kelly says, 'is a good way to convince people that changing the world is quite a nice thing to do.'"

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From Sweet Honey's website: "Founded by Bernice Johnson Reagon in 1973 (with Mie, Carol Maillard and Louise Robinson) at the D.C. Black Repertory Theater Company, Sweet Honey In The Rock, internationally renowned a cappella ensemble, has been a vital and innovative presence in the music culture of Washington, D.C., and in communities of conscience around the world."

TODAY AT 5:30 PM at Gildenhorn Recital Hall!!!!

"Take Five -- DR. YSAYE BARNWELL
What the Lyrics of Spirituals Have Told Us, Then and Now
Dr. Barnwell explores what the lyrics of spirituals have to tell us about the African experience in American history. What is the African world view? What was the relationship between African religions and Christianity? What were the activities of daily life? Was it better to remain enslaved or to risk escaping from slavery? And when and how could you escape? What does it mean to be bought and sold? How do you remember "home?" What were the strategies for survival? What gives you empowerment and hope? And what is the meaning of death?" 


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‘Frida Kahlo: Her Photos’ at Artisphere; Exhibit of 240 of the artist Frida Kahlo’s personal photos, first unsealed in 2007, runs through March 25. Slideshow on Washington Post online.


Yreina D. Cervántez, Homenaje a Frida Kahlo. [Plate 75, p. 283: Chicana Art: Pérez, 2007]
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