Product Description: On the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, African American artists and musicians grappled with new language and forms inspired by the black nationalist turn in the Civil Rights movement. The Freedom Principle, which accompanies an exhibition on the topic at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, traces their history and shows how it continues to inform contemporary artists around the world...read more

Product Description: presents an exhibition that probes the notion of African American art. Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery features more than 50 works that engage with the issue of race and call into question the meanings that have been mapped onto African American bodies throughout histor...read more

Product Description: Robert Farris Thompson, Professor of the History of African and African-American Art at Yale University, has been working on this study of African-Atlantic altars for twenty-five years. Face of the Gods is based on fieldwork in both Africa and the Americas - in Mali, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Zaire, the Central African Republic, Angola, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, on the eastern part of the Atlantic, and in Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Suriname, the United States, Brazil, and Argentina, on the western...read more

Product Description: This book provides a basic introduction to the principles of harmony considered common to all tonal music. It's particularly effective method of presentation facilities early mastery of harmonic principles & quickly develops students' skills in four part writing...read more

This book is in part a report of the findings gained through interviews with 732 city families and 178 farm families. In addition, the book contains a series of treatises on key aspects of marriage.