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The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966: Contexts and Legacies

The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966: Contexts and Legacies

Murphy, David

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Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, Book 20

African HistoryAfrican ArtGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 1781383162
ISBN13: 9781781383162
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Sep 1 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In April 1966, thousands of artists, musicians, performers and writers from across Africa and its diaspora gathered in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to take part in the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Premier Festival Mondial des arts nègres). The international forum provided by the Dakar Festival showcased a wide array of arts and was attended by such celebrated luminaries as Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Aimé Césaire, André Malraux and Wole Soyinka. Described by Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, as 'the elaboration of a new humanism which this time will include all of humanity on the whole of our planet earth', the festival constituted a highly symbolic moment in the era of decolonization and the push for civil rights for black people in the United States. In essence, the festival sought to perform an emerging Pan-African culture, that is, to give concrete cultural expression to the ties that would bind the newly liberated African 'homeland' to black people in

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