Black Arts Movement

A review of 'Black Case Volume I and II'

Image courtesy of Blank Forms Editions and After : Still.

Across the decades, the recordings of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, as well as most announcements of their concerts, bore the slogan “Great Black Music: Ancient to the Future.” Some years ago, in the course of a panel on the Ensemble and their history at the University of Chicago that featured Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, and George Lewis, the subject of that slogan and its origins was broached. Asked why that slogan, Jarman quipped, “nobody ever said it was great.” 

we sing looking to ALL the past future masters
to give us clear vision
healing music, GREAT BLACK MUSIC
where we start from finish start finish[1]

'How I got ovah'

Humor and discontent in women's poetry of the Black Arts Movement

Tom Fisher, Jessyka Finley, and Joshua Kotin at Kelly Writers House, April 2013.
Tom Fisher, Jessyka Finley, and Joshua Kotin at Kelly Writers House, April 2013.

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