Radical Pedagogies: Racial Identity, Racism, & Cultural Appropriation in the Arts

Sunday, May 26th (3-5 p.m.)

Compound Yellow
244 Lake St.
​Oak Park, IL  60302

free and open to the public, all ages

You’re invited to come to the next installment of our Radical Pedagogies series, during which Spencer Hutchinson and Dan Godston present a talk about racial identity, racism & cultural appropriation in the arts — including focuses on aspects of Modernism such as the Négritude movement and Harlem Renaissance; Chicago's Black Renaissance; artists and activists associated with the American Indian Movement; songs in musical genres such as the blues, jazz, rock and roll, and hip hop; and more. During this session we discuss --

• "Emmett Till" and "...On the State of the Union" by Aimé Césaire
• artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance -- including Romare Bearden, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nella Larsen

• artists associated with Chicago's Black Renaissance -- including Louis Armstrong, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Lorraine Hansberry, and Richard Wright
• songs from the '50s -- including "Fables of Faubus" by Charles Mingus, "Hound Dog" by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (recorded by Big Mama Thornton), "La Bamba" (recorded by Ritchie Valens, "Misirlou" (recorded by Dick Dale), "Rumble" by Link Wray, and "Springtime in Chicago" by Sun Ra
• songs from the '70s and '80s -- including "Brown Rice" by Don Cherry, "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, "Politicians in My Eyes" by Death, "Rapture" by Blondie, "Rockin the Res" by John Trudell, and "Shiva-Loka" by Alice Coltrane
• Woman Ironing (Isis) by Vik Muniz
• recently recorded songs -- including "Amor Sin Fronteras" by Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, "The Deep" by clipping., "From the Heart" by The Slants, "The Immigrants" by Gaby Moreno and Van Dyke Parks, "Once in a Lifetime" by the Talking Heads (recorded by Angelique Kidjo), "This America" by Joy Harjo, and "This Land" by Gary Clark, Jr.​

Above: Harriet Tubman by Margaret Burroughs

​A hands-on multi-arts workshop follows the talk. The workshop puts into practice some themes covered in our talk. 
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This program, co-presented by Compound Yellow and the Borderbend Arts Collective, is part of the Radical Pedagogies series, which happens at Compound Yellow on the fourth Sunday of the month. 

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