FESTAC '77 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by Chimurenga ; misdirections in music by Ntone Edjabe
World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (2nd : 1977 : Lagos, Nigeria) Search this
Subject:
World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (1977 : Lagos, Nigeria) Search this
World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture Search this
Physical description:
445 pages illustrations 32 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Nigeria
Lagos
Date:
2019
20th century
20e siècle
Notes:
AFA copy 39088019023092 gift from Janet Stanley.
Summary:
"Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC '77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. With a radically ambitious agenda underwritten by Nigeria's newfound oil wealth, FESTAC '77 would unfold as a complex, glorious and excessive culmination of a half-century of transatlantic and pan-Africanist cultural-political gatherings. Devised by Chimurenga and edited by Ntone Edjabe and Akin Adesokan, this is the first publication to consider FESTAC in all its cultural-historic complexity, addressing the planetary scale of the event alongside the personal and artistic encounters it made possible"--Provided by publisher
