Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capital of this region of "abject backwardness" refuses to fit the stereotype. The Olympics are coming. Conventions continue to pour in, and companies such as Coca-Cola ad IBM continue to locate their headquarters in this booming city. Atlanta's regional theater, under the artistic direction of an African-American, was recently hailed nationally as the model for diversifying its audience. The Symphony is first-rate, the film and music industries are growing and the theatrical production is explosive. Historically, the South has produced such artists as Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor and Truman Capote...
PITCHFORK PAT BUCHANAN AND HIS DEVOTEES CLAIM WHITE RACISM IS NO longer a problem. He should visit the Black Belt of Alabama, where African-American churches are being torched, a black judge's home has been shotgunned, and people generally feel under siege. From this vantage, it might not seem so wise to keep waving the Confederate flag and pretending there is no difference between singing Dixie and We Shall Overcome...
...especially pleased to be able to honor one of the giants--if not the giant--in African American popular music," Gates said in the statement...
...Music is one of the pillars of African American Studies," Gates said in a statement. "As important as literature or history are to the field, music demands the attention of any serious student of African American Studies...
Jones is widely regarded as a master of musical hybrids, having combined over the course of his long career pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African and Brazilian music...