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the pay to play the pan a vibe and a us alone like and brothers and sisters i'm lou house with william greaves welcome to black journal and i don't mind got together a special program for you as part of our summer series using portions of past white journal shows but we're going to focus in on black culture and the years sounds like your first appeared on the air we have emphasized many aspects of highly publicized as well as little known achievement in the field of arts the shaping of the united states culture it's lifestyle and its expression its music and its art can often be seen as a result of a reaction by afro americans to a hostile social environment black revolution has caused a wholesale

reevaluation of attitudes toward our history and our culture and tonight we'll be looking at some of these re evaluations again they were around the case to do with our culture show by really solidifies examples of bands we discovered last season we attempted to get to the roots of our rhythm following that will take a look at what afro american culture is all about in some parts of the deep south the first bill gray zone sundance thank you

and they were in jordan he's having a good time although modern dance historian discusses comparison between african and european dancing is the us economy our tradition is the dallas area it is now they

asked us the gases and the invasion the vast that away but as the other day what is this just abort emphasizes this relationship and teaches his students at the rebecca haag is a dj whitney is the fbi is

behind this ms banks bank as african dance migrated to other parts of the world it evolved into new forms so that as they say is is it because the music is the whole house is in the west indies it's been a few years

for the rat more resonant these allegations that persisted in us to inspire awe pretty well yes with me yeah he was eighty five yes it is he is

to have any open my a new breed of choreographer represents the new black approach to dance as concert pieces are based on are varied experiences in the city there's definitely a relationship between the social sciences and on dad says which i have choreographed onstage i feel that if we use social themes that movement comes out with teens about what was happening to people their actions and their reaction causes them to move in specific ways and i had fallen on the response in majority black of black audience they're beautiful because they say something happening on the stage which is a part of their lives with the type of togetherness that happens and this creates an awareness of oneself

using modern bands form mr gamal and dancer diana ramos continue the african tradition of conveying messages through the dance which tell our view of the world and they'd tell me that i was gone somewhere god help the place where i was in tears on texting brown bryce struggled and paul clung to mama the daughter of the daughter of all black woman whose name was a slave god help the place where that slave woman was of the news where she watched her children taken away to be sold on an auction block by their hate love has to either hate is an urn is of innocent flash they told me that i was born in some way i don't

remember way alabama norman's joy aegean god help the place where naked blackberries pulsating colored in swat darkness and ecstasy near the edge of some southern town where black bodies hung from the green bins of trees they tell me that i was born there yes why i am and where i am going diane laughter i am half smiles ims i full screams i'm a country girl who lives in the city i am a woman who moved from the plantation to the ghetto i am the daughter of four hundred years old

black t is be careful the peaks beans beans beans beans beans beans beans despite the centuries of abuse the creative genius of the black artists of violence there is the human triumph of the people in our heart we reclaim the last crumbs and wash ourselves with pleasant and painful images and sounds geez

gene every work of art mysteriously and closes an entire life of tortures doubts i was of enthusiasm and inspiration and more important and closes the cultural texture of the artist's life we have chosen the creative part is to sell fewer investment principally because he has accepted responsibility of enlightening the songs of black folks and in the process more clearly defining the black cultural experience and

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are on them rene navarro is at our ao ma on it it's over his came out of an effort to get that are more personal kind of expression my first musical earlier music was written an expression which one would consider more european are there that many difficulties facing the black artists regarding getting out of his car his own expression and that is that the techniques which are available on piazza difficulty

of making use of techniques and work of a different kind of expression ms b i think this is it's been in the

past while the elements to tell which you root for our millie technical devices to get that expression and for example i think that the same harmonic language that nineteenth century in his youth in europe dave lane his book is big thank you it's b this

please it was throughout the family movie about two three days i was in a new movie amazing clever signals that they had things in their own artillery a way that is family in the beginning

when it or allow diamond mining one new orleans lawyer in albania knowledge all on my playing and make an oregon to live in that time and really through it was a long ways to teach i mean the media this was a loss for his indian and ideas like that david only has really been the only in america always

alive his talent eager and ready to soar across the sky like a bright star to offer his shackled and smashed by necessity are often hostile society they came the social and political oppression aspen set of the warm beautiful life is all about the black experience which come that's about oppression and experience and hands by the smell of the earth the feel of the rhythm of life all around black culture pervades black awareness and one cannot

exist without the other professor longhair rotted because in these men whose names may be unfamiliar to most of us nonetheless are just as important to the molding of our culture's some of the bigger names we know that many mormons insist is out there we would like to uncover the world today and we will if we get the bread one aspect of african american culture which may soon become as popular jazz hard rock another black music as black theater in the past year like theatres been making strides in the scene began to capture audiences which have traditionally attended lily white productions and haven't seen the pleasantly roy jones or lonnie older and bones you're not on the case predicts new cliche repeatedly that the theater maybe dead are reluctant to credit the black and often revolutionary writers restored and so the theory we're unbiased and have the desire to explore realize a black female provided an invaluable shot only armed american theater at large at least this is what we believe a black journal or closer look at black fear let's listen to bill

back in the days when we were taken just conveniently a condescending image began to change and eighteen twenty one with the first black theater in america the african company gave performances of shakespeare and other classics of their own theater in lower new york and in an interesting switch provided a petition at the back of the house for white patrons that these were white hoodlums was harassment forced the closing of the play house but time and flexed its muscles again a decade later when ira aldridge moved across europe in the form of his ancestors them or is it his betrayal of a fellow europe surrendered to the strength of his talents and he surrendered to europe never returning to america it was a hundred years until another more appeared

pale ropes and you're just you're close close marshall brickman are coming to you schuster robeson's voice thundered across the broadway stage during two hundred and ninety six performances of othello which establish a record for the longest run of a shakespearean play on broadway but along the avenue so appropriately named the great white way it works only eleven black playwrights have been mounted including those of langston hughes richard wright and the late lorraine hansberry nineteen sixty four was the big year for afro american actors and playwrights off broadway ten plays were produced involving blacks of the man of the year was leroy jones was burning talent startled and irritated white audiences in nineteen sixty eight a hundred and fifteen years after uncle tom and stereotype died in his cabin black theater has emerged

as an unshakable art form does remain cohesive by actors like william marshall was performed on both the shakespearean stage and in motion pictures he was interviewed by black journal i feel in terms of my own role that i can't do enough to have to find ways of making a greater contribution to it and it's very difficult as a black back to work in the commercial aspect of the entertainment industry to do it it's because again it's always a great struggle in terms of making sure that the content is is commensurate with dignified an honest reflection of yourself other people i think that you know i know that it's essential of black people as have other people who've come to the united states to have to find a better way must build their own theater they must start in their own communities and draw upon that rich folklore of other people and it's a

great mississippi and as those visits which is there in terms of new new stories it would be a new history it's it's not it's not new but it will be new to the people who would do it you know once it's brought to the floor and a lot of attention it has to be there in the community college yeah it is today these actors are getting stronger and members of a community theater in watts los angeles producer directive and tile would he you know a few years ago

they would've been doing our town or death of a salesman or some other play written by a white expressing his culture today such planes appear irrelevant these actors know who they are this is totally black theater cat their objective is no longer true crime themselves for broadway but to create their own theatrical environment all across the country black some patronizing they're community theater is the reason for this is that finally they're seeing themselves as they really are and not the way whites would like to portray them and bowens author of the son come home is one of the most gifted playwrights out there we asked them about the future of black theater it's contingent on women's coach

insists on someone's allows purpose than getting in sales which he said that the place that that you've written and had produced was you put them in the category of revenue and cruz black theater on those theaters that builds the people and told the robinsons about the lines at this moment not sort of a decadent type of activities which expresses the type of an aging aunt and skype from people that i wrote and sang in the lives of people those will have

seen really is whether this month while you and we'll never got married he used it and go to my questions like that one of its testimony and this is what you can imagine on one living alone in this room we're have a wife and child and chester you know that was milo why the desert in this one million as character you do this virginia mother

are they chased him away as soon as it got didn't choose between you and we will model because you had rented the namesakes he used to play the law will one mouse sends a humanized decorum just plain we are like we was his family most and you don't weigh he never lifted a hand does not do enough you did everything you could to get made without like michael i'm listening ms bee i was thinking someday i could run a car company gets you can drive up to see our show ideas about what a time to rest for one or sorry i can do that but you like it milo what we get to do anything like that no more

you mean you want to come to see me play like i wouldn't come it's my last another good then you have something to learn to talk that we're in and now michael i can no longer limited are you do you have oh my mother and i didn't know it was a late round allying oh just fine mother good it's

you know we don't want to have this week meat and duly noted the yellow sun oh mother mother the truth or michael leavitt this is my cook my son last line that i've heard so much about your mother that she prays levy system down he asks he is new york massachusetts texas california north carolina louisiana

and illinois dr black theatres in all the state's most of the series are dedicated to the growth of black awareness and black pride but the theater isn't the only emergency of what we might call a black hole for import weiss studies programs are happening in many american universities unique program was under way in the nation's capital one of the ways that black people need ice states are getting themselves together is to use of programs are triggered to train the young people one of the most successful programs of this type is under way right now in washington dc the new thing art and architecture center was started in nineteen sixty seven with a grant from the district's recreation department today more than five hundred young people are involved in a dynamic program which has its own high school and performance section and it's becoming well known around the eastern seaboard it's

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peak it's broken on the last night i dreamed two landed him to i dreamed in clark bent over double bed with the sadness that legally do i did all kinds of people all the words

spelled i looked at my grandchildren i looked at the children again co and suddenly identified feed corn we just talk to feel to bring our hands together in jubilation i remember looking down at my body and seeing the outer skin i should say that they're feeling leisure is not follow the chase dreams it just proclaimed that advanced the year so far more than we have ever been i mean it was insane it's a minute of sense to starvation deprivation so much how precious sustenance why it was so strange to me ninety

everything one off like so many well hers and i knew with the frozen kind of intense a final declaration of times for me can already this hopeless this vein while the city's gone down and then cease to talk to one you would lose the marginal sheet an excerpt from one novel non progress while telling young black woman many on how the latin american astronauts in the moon run a number of differing reactions in the black community there were some enthusiasm wonder but there was also some sobering reactions as well many black people feel it's a mistake to believe that if america hadn't gone to the moon it wouldn't necessarily used all that money to deal with the many problems here on earth such as poverty pollution racial discrimination and hunger despite verbal protest to the contrary mr silliman i care about these problems not that much anyway is a country with a gross national product of

nearly a trillion dollars the money is here any country that confine an unpopular war and more money and weapons than in any other single item they can impose a ten percent surtax and sent men to the moon they do that country is really got them bread what the moon shot cruz again is that what america hasn't got it so clean what the moon shot there is money here for health low cost housing job training and the elimination of disease and racial president's statements are regularly made sign that america wants to do these positive signs but vietnam arms race with any one party's these actions tell us otherwise is now the medium and the message from now on it will rise of night with a new symbolism will say america doesn't care about human problems and the masses to black people is that we better get on with our own money and our own thang is going for ourselves we have been foolish expecting others to do for us for what our own thang is of all bothers acquiring knowledge of art history

last season where the builder looked in on some of that and african african country of the black man's path for several centuries the image of africa have suffered as a result of misconceptions created by european exploitation that been fighting myths of the primitive savage african the dark forbidding continent the stock research is now revealing the civilizations which flourished long before europeans arrived on insurance evidence points to an ancient african of the difficulty and the beginning of that now that got a sham the hall meeting many of them out of a job the things in that generated creativity only now with bananas beginning to rise of african art

represents right now communicating assaad says these images reflect that tradition and provide a sense of continuity on broadway from the past present and future the pay to play ms bader

ginsburg cultural civilization centuries before christ africa emerge into an arrow battles the iron age of the oldest known of the west african sculptures the creative works in the fifth grade of age and that the name came along the great masterpieces of the world the astonishing europe were great images believe in their misconceptions about the europeans could not believe that africans two thousand years ago had created such works of art walls of an emerging people were decorated with

ohio where joker one necklace symbol of royalty despite the artistic achievements of these ancient medieval african kingdoms even today there were some societies are still call them at the end the air above nigeria pile of enclosed increase faith squad every proportion making use of vivid colors and i got a good laugh from the ivory coast and now it's used in way i go hmm animal and human figures and the dove than flying figures are known for their contained horse

cemetery among the most abstract african sculptures other metal comedy called the figures a mask on the vocal people are comparable at the turn of the century modern european artist discovered and acknowledge universal significance of these products of african culture they encountered in african sculpture of freedom from conventional form of dynamic quality and our which a lot of patients african art has become a dominant influence the odd or mowing grass and all of our late last modigliani again

political accommodation at the german expressionist days recent discoveries of ancient african cultures are exporting more familiar western stereotypes about savage culture artifacts beauty style rhythm we get all of it and they did not warm all of us are beginning to appreciate ourselves all called for more about what's not worry about what might have taken so long to dig ourselves let's just dig ourselves earlier we spoke a reevaluation of ourselves and our culture as a part of what our revolution was

all about very artless recession has to do with you guessed it the beauty the grey's anatomy it's more than that because i think about it and they hear me yeah though word of the existence of a beautiful exotic women of africa travel to europe through the stories told by merchants and explores shortly thereafter and we

are these are a day and a black people are rediscovering the true essence of their beauty black women and are cherishing the exotic endowment not only through the use of cosmetics and natural hairstyles but also that the use of african prints here

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