This topic contains a solution. Click here to go to the answer

Author Question: Highlight African-American achievements in the visual arts and in music. What will be an ideal ... (Read 67 times)

cdr_15

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 546
Highlight African-American achievements in the visual arts and in music.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

As communications theorist Marshall McLuhan famously observed, the ________ is the message.
 
  A. audience
  B. medium
  C. feedback
  D. message



Related Topics

Need homework help now?

Ask unlimited questions for free

Ask a Question
Marked as best answer by a Subject Expert

AngeliqueG

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 343
Answer to Question 1

African-American painters and sculptors made public the social concerns of black poets and writers. In picturing their experience, they drew on African folk idioms and colloquial forms of native expression; but they also absorbed the radically new styles of European modernism. Among these painters, there emerged a blues aesthetic that featured bold colors, angular forms, and rhythmic, stylized compositions. Many artists took inspiration from the improvisational phrasing and syncopated rhythms of jazz. The works of Romare Bearden, for example, feature abrupt shifts in scale and strident colors and use music itself as their subjects. The issue of racial equality is still explored today, by artists like Kara Walker. Knowing the liberation and racial freedom are ongoing processes, Walker brings to contemporary art a subtle and complex examination of the tangled relationships between white and black Americans.
Blues and jazz music are perhaps the most important contributions by African-Americans to world culture and serve as a good representation of the fight for racial equality. Truly an American art form, jazz is a combination of African and Afro-Caribbean rhythmic styles and European and African-American concepts of harmony, melody, and tone color. As a performance art, jazz depends on the interaction of the ensemble's members as they improvise, illustrating the ideal nature of harmony between people. As trumpeter Wynton Marsalis states, Jazz is more than the best expression there is of American culture; it is the most democratic of arts. Later in the century, African-Americans again revolutionized music with the emergence of hip-hop styles. A product of the inner-city American subculture, hip-hop brings together loud, percussive music, the spoken word, and street-dance, generating a raw vitality that captures the experiences of many African-Americans.

Answer to Question 2

B




cdr_15

  • Member
  • Posts: 546
Reply 2 on: Sep 28, 2018
Excellent


Hdosisshsbshs

  • Member
  • Posts: 315
Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

Did you know?

Ether was used widely for surgeries but became less popular because of its flammability and its tendency to cause vomiting. In England, it was quickly replaced by chloroform, but this agent caused many deaths and lost popularity.

Did you know?

More than one-third of adult Americans are obese. Diseases that kill the largest number of people annually, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and hypertension, can be attributed to diet.

Did you know?

Over time, chronic hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections can progress to advanced liver disease, liver failure, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Unlike other forms, more than 80% of hepatitis C infections become chronic and lead to liver disease. When combined with hepatitis B, hepatitis C now accounts for 75% percent of all cases of liver disease around the world. Liver failure caused by hepatitis C is now leading cause of liver transplants in the United States.

Did you know?

About 600,000 particles of skin are shed every hour by each human. If you live to age 70 years, you have shed 105 pounds of dead skin.

Did you know?

Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.

For a complete list of videos, visit our video library