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... particularly important as black South Africans fought for basic human rights. Drum magazine—South Africa’s leading fashion black lifestyle magazine—chronicled the burgeoning Black Consciousness movement along side its coverage of black fashion models and fashion designers. Fashion was political. One’s attire...

...• proach to the definition of Diaspora, and an exploration tions were represented, from Congo Press to South of specific links and divergences in the aesthetic prac• Africa's Drum magazine. Unfortunately, the work was tices being developed...

... of Bailey's African History Archives, Johannesburg. have been so fascinating. for Drum magazine, are refreshingly direct narratives. The "meta-territory of the exhibition site" [p. 22] identified in the Sontag wrote that "The only...

..., industriousness, and upward mobility tation of blackness, desire, and beauty across time of a female police academy graduate will encounter and space. His archive thus not only constitutes a the sexual politics of Drum magazine in a Jamaican rare document of the black experience in postwar bus-conductor...

... such as Black Orpheus journal and Drum! magazine. Text that describes the objects is inscribed into their plexiglass boxes and is only visible in relation to the objects and mirrors that surround them, implicating our act of viewing in their meaning. Global Modernism and Us Within the main exhibition...

... cultures, a generation of late-colonial-era Europeans still active in the continent s nascent art industry, joined by young African writers and artists, enabled a fair amount of postcolonial art writing in Black Orpheus (Nigeria), Transition (Uganda), and occasionally in Drum (South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda...

... on his renowned series of murals Aspects of Negro African dance with drumming and theater.9 Dafora Life (1934) for the Countee Cullen Branch of the sought to present African art and culture in com- Finley Nka • 143 plex...

... workshop on video or installation art—he was Standard is succinctly characterized by Elizabeth asked to run a drumming workshop. What the Harney: "It is both frightening and sobering to see Nasr example reinforces is that in the context of a critic advance these racist views within a widely...

.... Larry Neal, “Black Art and Black Liberation” (1969), DRUM the saxophone.”10 We be about making VISUAL Magazine, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Spring 1981, vol. 11, no. 1. MUSIC! 2. Ibid. We always seek...

... Mnguni and Gerard Benghu through DRUM magazine to the present via Guy Tillim and Peter Hugo — to the leading characters in this narrative (hence the many...

... then theorized their work of the group The Last Poets, for 20th century ethnographic photographs, version of an originary black culture, example, integrating politics, drumming, was a taken as a sign of uncivilized exhibi• largely basing it on their understanding...

... (1959) and the equally subtle and serene Fishermen s Village (1962) reflect this. In Drummers of Ede Biggers explains: Many words and phrases of the tonal West African languages can be reproduced on a drum, which sometimes actually serves as a master of ceremonies at certain celebrations. It gives...

... Poetry is appreciated, and gies across distant borders through personal and the recognition of Eugene Redmond’s superb criti- impersonal media. For all the contrary power of cism in Drum Voices is welcome, if overdue. But the the personal and culture-­drenched orientation divorce from theory...

... of the June 1957 play in Victory Is Certain, a staff made of assegai issue of Drum. There’s Noel Watson’s memorable wood that recalled, in form and materials, Zulu image from 1980 of a seventeen-year-old Thabo examples but eschewed their conventional finial Sefatsa raising both hands in a V-shaped...

... such as Asmat, Zar, Metet, Tenguala, Buda, Denkara, into images to ensure a “clear, concise visualization Ganen, I hear African peoples drumming and sing- of religious doctrine.”21 Talismanic practices — such ing on my canvases. Through their voices and their as the preparation of healing scrolls...

... visually with Tony s bedroom partner, Sister Louise. A heavy drum sequence crescendos as Tony grows nearer to the frame s center. While approach- ing the sole light source, it becomes apparent that he is holding the sharp dagger with vengeance. The dagger, of course, is the second connection to his bedroom...

... with a Sowetan in ec- drums her ngers on the back of a publisher’s seat. tion.8 Thus, while the show may be rooted in formu- From this angle, one could say that aspects of las, viewers insist on making it local — and, in doing the plot of the soap opera also become relevant. so, begin to make...

... to establish contacts and relation• from the point of view of the essentializing conun• ships that lead to future inquiries? Does a curator drum, one may or may not face, let me err, at least or organizer need to be an organic intellectual to provisionally, on the side of my postcolonial iden...

... humiliated at the condi• the Drum journalist, received their higher education. But in Fort Hare, tions made to my people; and I had a growing difficulty in containing I did not study art—there was no such thing—; my subjects were myself on certain occasions. Thus, I soon understood I would never...

.... One evening after class at 5 p.m., a van with three people in it drove through the city [Cotonou, ca. 1939]; one of them was beating the drum; the second was shouting in a chant: Talkie Tonight ; the third was throwing out advertising flyers. All the schoolchildren were running behind the van to pick...