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Poems, songs, and shouts around the upcoming title, Buibui (The Spider), a collection of short stories about "all of the...
07/14/2024

Poems, songs, and shouts around the upcoming title, Buibui (The Spider), a collection of short stories about "all of the things we cannot tell."

Artist note: I am sequencing these poems, songs, and shouts in a style that I call African dramatic form (ADF), which understands story as ritual space and intentional movement that is generally all of informative, entertaining, and transformative. 

Central to ADF design is the ritual movement through a problem to its solution and afterlife (this is, defining the problem, solving the problem, and then developing the story beyond that solution). 

These shouts will begin among what are authentically some of the heaviest places of the heart. I suppose we shall see how they arrive, individually and together.


Black Aesthetic (Cont.)*To fully "see" poetry and other art from this time (The Black Arts Movement), you must appreciat...
07/14/2024

Black Aesthetic (Cont.)*

To fully "see" poetry and other art from this time (The Black Arts Movement), you must appreciate how revolutionary it was to call oneself "Black" because Black was ugly, criminal, and symbolic of what is unnatural and "other."

To be "Black and Beautiful' and "Black and Proud" were juxtapositions.

When art is using "Black" identity, calling on "Black" people, or using African imagery in a way intended to elevate and normalize the aesthetic, it is an invocation to self-determination—And it must have worked, to some extent, since to be Black was for my generation, nearly synonymous with African-American (now no longer hyphenated) and is even more casually used today.

In understanding this art we absolutely mustt, must remember that to call oneself "Black" was heretical in the time of BAM.

It is also important to note that the BAM Aesthetic was a call to Black people globally in much the way that The New Negro Movement was multi-linguistic so that Negroes worldwide could understand the message and apply it to their unique circumstances under the universal identifier "Black."

I have mentioned "invocation" —What other Black aesthetic devices can you identify in James Brown's popular anthem, "Say It Loud"? (Hint: see my previous reel if needed)

Can you hear his use of "call-and-response"?

*This is a reflection on my experience and the material presented in the BAM & Black aesthetics seminar taught by Marguerite Harrold via The photo is relevant to SOSOADAE and terms of African dramatic form.


I took a refreshing seminar on Black aesthetics and the BAM (Black Arts Movement) this morning with Marguerite Harrold v...
07/14/2024

I took a refreshing seminar on Black aesthetics and the BAM (Black Arts Movement) this morning with Marguerite Harrold via

Poets, academics, and those new to creative writing were in attendance. 

It was a nice return to fundamentals as I return to SOSOADAE and African dramatic form. 

Here are some poetic forms & devices of the Black Aesthetic as presented:

-Personification
-Call and response 
-Jazz
-Syncopation 
-Rhyme
-Repetition
-Litany
-Invocation 
-Prayers 
-Battle cries 

Look for how YOU are using these devices in your creative writing. 

-SOSOADAE 

12/20/2023

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