Sentences with phrase «black jazz musicians»

Her process of coupling microsampled sound pieces spliced from avant - garde black jazz musicians with sculpted or painted visual abstraction that directly references the work of her white, male, Modernist influences elucidates the innovations of her predecessors, while creating a radical, new space for the reading of Modernism.

The black jazz musicians were the ones who really opened the door.

In 1948, Rawlins debuts in Devil in a Blue Dress, in which he accepts a $ 100 offer to locate a missing white woman who keeps the company of black jazz musicians in South Central Los Angeles.

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He also traces the history of Islam among African - Americans by tying together such key developments as the formation of black fraternal lodges in the 18th and 19th centuries; Noble Drew Ali's 1913 organization of the Moorish Science Temple in Newark, New Jersey; the growth of various Islamic missionary and revivalist movements beginning in the 19th and continuing throughout the 20th centuries; and the conversion to Islam of be-bop jazz musicians who helped raise the faith's profile in the African - American community.

Other blacks, some of them musicians who worked jazz up from the South, would feel the touch of fame, or once in a while have the thought that their names meant something to people outside their own.

(Mostly black, exclusively male, and played by young top - tier musicians, the Studio Band brings a spit - valve - clearing, floor - tom - tuning authenticity that grounds the film in jazz's social and physical reality.)

In this stunningly researched novel, Nicole Mones not only tells the forgotten story of black musicians in the Chinese jazz age, but also weaves in a startling true tale of Holocaust heroism little - known in the West.

Harlan leads a fairly routine life as a young black musician in Jazz Age Harlem; then he and his close friend are invited to perform in Paris, where they get entangled with the Third Reich's brutality.

Much like jazz musicians, the artists of this tradition reflect the rich, symbolic world of the black rural South through highly charged works that address a wide range of revelatory social and political subjects.

Part of a group of pioneering artists and jazz musicians ensconced in LA's black arts scene, Hammons soon began transitioning to New York where the urban surround bolstered his concepts and performances.

Saint Phalle chose prominent and inspiring members of the African American community related to sports or music to highlight in the Black Heroes series, such as jazz musicians Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong, performer Josephine Baker, and athletes Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Tony Gwynn.

BLACK AND BLUR — writings by Fred Moten on artists and musicians, including Charles Mingus, David Hammons, and Glenn Gould — is the first volume of CONSENT NOT TO BE A SINGLE BEING, a trilogy of essays published in the fifteen years since In the Break (2003), Moten's landmark investigation of jazz, sexual identity, and radical -LSB-...]

Like jazz musicians, the artists of the Harlem Renaissance era travelled and interacted, and their art was cosmopolitan, inspired by European modernism as well as the cultural groundswell of black America.

The mosaic - tile painting is part of Whitten's series of Black Monolith works paying tribute to African American visionaries — intellectuals, jazz musicians, and visual artists.

American artist Lucas Ajemian, along with his brother Jason, a jazz musician and composer, assembled a ten - piece classical orchestra for their performance of the legendary rock song, «Into the Void» by the heavy metal band Black Sabbath.

There, from the late 1960s to mid-1970s, he was part of a group of pioneering artists and jazz musicians ensconced in LA's black arts scene.

Gates's construction also serves as a contemplative space meant to inspire dialogue across philosophical and cultural boundaries on topics ranging from politics and religion to culture, food, and art as well as a performative space for the Black Monks of Mississippi, a group of Baptist - Buddhist musicians who mix slave spirituals, monastic chants, and jazz to create a singular sonorous experience.

Accordingly, Jones looks at bebop, a jazz practice pioneered by avant - garde black musicians, as her artistic precedent.