Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsmapsmusic

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

FESTAC '77

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by Chimurenga ; misdirections in music by Ntone Edjabe

Series statement

Chimurenga Library series, 3Exhibition histories, 10

Sub title

2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture

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

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