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Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the DiasporaNew Orleans: America’s Creative Crescent

Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora: New Orleans: America’s Creative Crescent [Society often views creativity as located in the mind, that the lone genius needs only the proper moment of inspiration for the magic (idea, object, solution) to be released. This essay proposes that creativity is also vitally located within the active body, and when these bodies are geographically positioned in highly creative places amazing leaps occur. Through the phenomenological lens of Ponty and Trigg, supported by the vibrant observations of Rebecca Solnit, we will examine the nature of creative places, illuminating the effects of place upon the generative body. Insight from specialist authors on creativity (Gardner, Csikszentmihayli) and historians of New Orleans’ African-American culture (Sublette, Johnson, Burns) reveal the impact of creative places upon the embodied creativity of musicians, artists, dancers, and the visual culture.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the DiasporaNew Orleans: America’s Creative Crescent

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series
Editors: Adelakun, Abimbola; Falola, Toyin
Bartholomee, Lucy
Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora — Jul 27, 2018
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-91309-4
Pages
197 –215
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-91310-0_10
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[Society often views creativity as located in the mind, that the lone genius needs only the proper moment of inspiration for the magic (idea, object, solution) to be released. This essay proposes that creativity is also vitally located within the active body, and when these bodies are geographically positioned in highly creative places amazing leaps occur. Through the phenomenological lens of Ponty and Trigg, supported by the vibrant observations of Rebecca Solnit, we will examine the nature of creative places, illuminating the effects of place upon the generative body. Insight from specialist authors on creativity (Gardner, Csikszentmihayli) and historians of New Orleans’ African-American culture (Sublette, Johnson, Burns) reveal the impact of creative places upon the embodied creativity of musicians, artists, dancers, and the visual culture.]

Published: Jul 27, 2018

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