A Notebook on Kalamu ya Salaam's The Magic of Juju

Kalamu ya Salaam's The Magic of Juju: An Appreciation of the Black Arts Movement (Third World Press, 2016) offers a historical look at one of our most important cultural moments in the production of African American artistic thought.

The book includes chapters on: definitions of the Black Arts Movement; its historical background; the national birth of the movement; its theory and practice; publications; audio recordings; theatre; related black music of the art and era; film and television; dance; visual arts; critics of the time period; the critical assessment of the movement.  The book also includes images of black arts texts by Eugene B. Redmond, a study guide by Jiton Davidson, and a dialogue between Salaam and Margo Natalie Crawford.

What follows are entries on aspects of the book:

• The Magic of Juju and Black Arts texts
• The Magic of Juju and Black Arts scholarly discourse 
• Kalamu ya Salaam's introduction to the Black Arts era
• Kalamu ya Salaam, Eugene B. Redmond, and special collections

Related:
• The Black Arts Era