HUMAN H141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mississippi Goddam, Death Of Sandra Bland, Nina Simone
28 May 2016
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#blacklivesmatter most high-profile grassroots black liberation movement in decades. 100s of 1,000s have participated in vigils, rallies, marches, blockades, die-ins, teach-ins, and more since 2014. Diverse demands: individual accountability; broad criminal justice reforms. Videos shown: beyonce"s formation, prince black lives matter video. Overlapping worlds of civil rights politics and entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s. Civil rights politics communicated through global mass culture. Used celebrity status to support activism: financial, visibility. Relied on television to disseminate images and news. Asserting citizenship through participation in consumer culture. Rejecting dominant notions of beauty of glamour. The afro as visual evidence of claiming black female strength. Critical and commercial success in us and abroad. Lyrics and performances as catalyst for black power movement of late 1960s. Devices that make the listening audience and political public merge . Through anthems, the delineation between art and politics as well as listener and actor is blurred .
