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The freedom principle : experiments in art and music, 1965 to now
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"The Freedom Principle : Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now links the vibrant legacy of the 1960s African American avant-garde in Chicago to current art and culture. It is occasioned in part...
"The Freedom Principle : Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now links the vibrant legacy of the 1960s African American avant-garde in Chicago to current art and culture. It is occasioned in part by the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a still-flourishing organization that continues to expand the boundaries of jazz. During the civil rights era, AACM, alongside visual artists such as members of the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA), embraced principles of experimentation, improvisation, and collectivity to address issues of self-determination and democracy. Artworks both contemporary and of the period, from Chicago and around the world, reveal the ongoing relevance of this interdisciplinary history. The richly illustrated catalogue features essays by leading curators and scholars, a roundtable, archival materials, a chronology, and a curated playlist." --
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- Creator
- Naomi Beckwith, Dieter Roelstraete
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- English
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- Chicago ; London : Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in association with the University of Chicago Press, [2015]
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- 264 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226319308, 022631930X, 9780996211604, 0996211608
- OCLC
- ocn904905152
- Discography: pages 201-209.
- Foreword / Madeleine Grynsztejn -- Acknowledgments / Naomi Beckwith and Dieter Roelstraete -- The way ahead / Dieter Roelstraete -- Only poetry / Naomi Beckwith -- Works 1 -- Positive aesthetics / Rebecca Zorach -- Expressive awesomeness / George E. Lewis -- Works 2 -- An anecdotal topography / John Corbett -- A collective conversation / Naomi Beckwith, Romi Crawford, Tomeka Reid, Dieter Roelstraete, and Hamza Walker, with commentary by Fred Moten -- An illustrated playlist -- Works 3 -- Chronology / Grace Deveney -- Exhibition checklist
Subjects
- Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.) -- Exhibitions.
- Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
- African American art -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions.
- African Americans -- Music -- Exhibitions.
- African American painters -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
- African American artists -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
- Artists, Black -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
- African American art -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
- Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
- Music in art.
- Jazz in art.
- Politics in art.