Marshall describes the kitchen setting she was exposed to as a child: They were women in whom the need for self-expression was strong, and since language was the only vehicle readily available to them they made of it an art form that- in keeping with the African tradition in which art and life are one - was an integral part of their lives (Marshall, 1996: 1948). The ancestry Marshall refers to had the same barriers as Walker expressed that her ancestors had: they had only their voice through which they chose to speak or sin...

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Furthermore a people's culture is expressed through its works, whether it be in politics, literature, athletics, or art. Art is a unique form of expression because humans can directly play on three of the human senses, sight, taste, and hearing. ... Music is the art of sound that pleasures hearing and it has been in existence since humans have aurally communicated with each other. ... African American music is a style that has always been a popular and respected form of entertainment inside, as well as outside of the culture; so does that just mean that the people have only used their mus...

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The Negro's Contribution to American Art and Literature. ... The Negro and His Music: Negro Art, Past and Present. ... Negro Art: Past and Present. ... The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1979. ...

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The Negro's Contribution to American Art and Literature. ... The Negro and His Music: Negro Art, Past and Present. ... Negro Art: Past and Present. ... The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1979. ...

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Eventually, American-born composers realized they were facing a dilemma: much of the music and art they were producing from the English past was alien to Americans of non-English background. ... A very diversified popular art was developing. ... One of the greatest musical forms to come from and be influenced by Black Nationalism is hip-hop (rap) music. ... Hip-hop fused these two forms - poetry and Jazz. ... He was deft at the art of mixing and fading one record into another without missing a beat in the interchange. ...

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On the other hand, the separatism of American life, which required a separatist foundation to hold segregated exhibitions, the absence of repositories to collect and preserve the art, and the distortions of critics hostile to the very notion that Black people could make high art, only served to widen rather than narrow the breach (Collier, 1985). ...

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During the early 1920's when Toomer was writing there was much emphasis on becoming a 'New Negro', forging a new identity for ones self through the mediums of literature, art and music. ... Toomer continually struggled with his own identity 'I wrote a poem called "The First American", the idea of which was that here in America we are in the process of forming a new race, that I was one of the first conscious members of this race'.7 Cane however, was still marketed by Waldo Frank as 'a book about Negroes by a Negro'8 and this slogan appeared in the New Yor...

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