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The Dirty South : contemporary art, material culture, and the sonic impulse /

"This exhibition catalog to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse chronicles the pervasive visual and sonic parallels in the work of Black artists from the southern United States. It looks to contemporary southern hip-h...

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Main Author: Cassel Oliver, Valerie (Author)
Other Authors: Bradley, Regina N., 1984- (Contributor), Braxton, Charlie R. (Contributor), Brownlee, Andrea Barnwell (Contributor), Buick, Kirsten Pai (Contributor), Burris, Jennifer, 1982- (Contributor), Combs, Rhea L. (Contributor), McArthur, Park (Contributor), DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid (Contributor), Moten, Fred (Contributor), Pinn, Anthony B. (Contributor), Ramsey, Guthrie P. (Contributor), Reeves, Roger (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Richmond, Virginia : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, [2021]
Subjects:
African American art > Southern States > 20th century > Exhibitions.
African American art > Southern States > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Material culture > Southern States > Exhibitions.
African Americans > Music.
African Americans > Religion.
African American art > Political aspects > Southern States.
Southern States > In art > Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
ISBN:1934351199
9781934351192
Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword / Alex Nyerges
  • What you know about the Dirty South? / Valerie Cassel Oliver
  • a poem for black art / Fred Moten
  • Landscape : the politics and poetics of dirt. Cosmic encounter / Charlie R. Braxton ; Bevery Buchanan : forms of ruination / Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Jennifer Burris, and Park MacArthur ; Quilted beats bound at the rut : a theorization of the Dirty South / Regina N. Bradley ; Plates
  • Systems of thought : the vision of envisioning. Songs that are sacred and pure (for Toni Morrison) / Charlie R. Braxton ; Dreaming empire, conjuring freedom : RenĂ©e Stout, African American landscape representation, and the imperial South / Kirsten Pai Buick ; Bible Belt swag : Houston hip-hop and Black religion / Anthony B. Pinn ; Dreaming of the South in stereo : Black music's American journey / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. ; Plates
  • The Black body : repository/site/agent. Bluesosophy (for Julius Thompson) / Charlie R. Braxton ; Picturing the South : how photographers have imaged the region / Rhea L. Combs ; Changing the rules, the practice of pleasure : the linguistic possibilities of dirt / Roger Reeves ; Plates
  • Epilogue. Code Black : the Dirty South / Paul D. Miller ; The Dirty South playlist ; Plates
  • Artist biographies
  • Contributor biographies
  • Exhibition checklist and image credits.

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