| This URL table complements the book, What Makes That Black? The African American Aesthetic. On page 77 of the book I list internet examples of the 71 basic tenets of the African American Aesthetic, however URLs are highly dynamic and on this page I will attempt to keep the examples current.
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| Tenet 1. | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross “Black is Beautiful”
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/video/black-is-beautiful/ |
| Tenet 2. | Robert Farris Thompson “Aesthetic of The Cool” |
| Tenet 3. | Thomas DeFrantz: Buck, Wing, and Jig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A34OD4eA17o and “From Juba to Jitterbug to Jookin: Black Dance in America” |
| Tenet 4. | Cab Calloway and his band in Geechy Joe from Stormy Weather. 1943. [The Zoot suit was a direct cultural mandate declaring “existence” in an era where people of color were to be unseen.] |
| Tenet 5. | “The Africanist Aesthetic in American Dance Forms” by Emily Willette
and Michael Jackson – Best Performance Ever [His asymmetry is in the dance, costuming and his “hot” balanced with “cool”] |
| Tenet 6. | Pearl Primus choreography Strange Fruit, 1943
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68bxgON10zg&index=5&list=PL5ZzAbdo6JUvJzN5DrAGopolGaN6FELiE |
| Tenet 7. | Images of Mississippi Delta Blues – by Bill Steber
http://www.steberphoto.com/0d5alxpodikqoh17bsyjonnm4wbvdn and Fences by August Wilson– based on a Blues motif |
| Tenet 8. | Proletarian French Voguers (explicit language) |
| Tenet 9. | Rosie and Levee Camp Holler |
| Tenet 10. | Alberta Hunter / Handy Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmFtwwCOmmo and Dancing in The Light: Ostrich (Imitation); watch “Barrelhouse Blues” |
| Tenet 11. | Jumpin Jive – Cab Callaway and the Nicholas Brothers |
| Tenet 12. | Voguing: The Message
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSFKZwyPwyI and |
| Tenet 13. | Kerby Jean-Raymond – Black Lives Matter, Depression and street haute couture:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pyer-moss-fall-2016-show_us_56bfef59e4b0c3c55051b4a0 |
| Tenet 14. | How to do the Dougie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtYSZawpSQI and Camille A. Brown: A History of Social Dance in 25 Moves and World Japan LES TWINS Final Hip Hop (explicit language in music) |
| Tenet 15. | House Dance Legends: Check your Body at the Door |
| Tenet 16. | Cecile McLorin Salvant If This isn’t Love |
| Tenet 17. | Alonzo King – LINES Ballet Moroccan Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho8eAwApYmw&list=RDjTzMNNvgKAo&index=2 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho8eAwApYmw and Katherine Dunham of the Dunham Technique |
| Tenet 18. | John Coltrane “Afro Blue” |
| Tenet 19. | Complexions Ballet – Moon Over Jupiter by Dwight Rhoden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgLQMYMP8Ck&index=3&list=RDjTzMNNvgKAo |
| Tenet 20. | Ta-Nehisi Coates reading from “Between The World and Me”
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/397715/Between-the-World-and-Me-Teaser/ |
| Tenet 21. | Jacob Lawrence and the Making of the Migration Series |
| Tenet 22. | Peg Leg Bates |
| Tenet 23. | Great Performances Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis PBS 1986 (There is a 2016 movie, Miles Ahead directed by Don Cheadle / written by Cheadle and Baigelman– see the new version if possible)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeQrt1h16rg and Flex Reel: 21 Dancers in 02:25 |
| Tenet 24. | An Illustrative Identity of Fashion and Style Throughout African-American History and Movements
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danielle-james/the-illustrative-identity_b_6519244.html |
| Tenet 25. | TURF FEINZ RIP RichD – Dancing in the Rain Oakland Street – YAK FILMS |
| Tenet 26. | Donald McKayle’s Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXZ2ca066Lo
and Kara Walker |
| Tenet 27. | Artist as Researcher: An Evening with Ralph Lemon |
| Tenet 28. | Nina Chanel Abney |
| Tenet 29. | Still Laughing to Keep from Crying: Black Humor by Mona Lisa Saloy
http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/still_laugh.html |
| Tenet 30. | Georgia Sea Island Singers from the Bess Lomax Hawes Film – Throw Me Anywhere Lord |
| Tenet 31. | Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Posted by My Publicist |
| Tenet 32. | Wynton Marsalis: Nuts and Bolts of Jazz – Improvisation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H7kuPAlXGs and Wynton Marsalis with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra – Playing Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, and Charlie Mingus. |
| Tenet 33. | Soul Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWVxLTnkx7c and Omega Psi Phi – Georgia Tech Step Show 2010 |
| Tenet 34. | Whiteys Lindy Hoppers … Hellzapoppin’ |
| Tenet 35. | Ella Fitzgerald- It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing 1957 (RITY Archives) |
| Tenet 36. | 1959 The Year that Changed Jazz |
| Tenet 37. | Prince performing Purple Rain during downpour – Super Bowl Halftime show 2007.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjUzpCslLh0
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| Tenet 38. | Jook / Juke / Joot Joints
http://www.pomeroyblues.org/2013/03/13/juke-joints-blues-clubs-and-various-other-venues/ |
| Tenet 39. | Desmond Richardson in Moonlight |
| Tenet 40. | Black Theatre: The Making of A Movement |
| Tenet 41. | Formation (explicit) |
| Tenet 42. | Prince MTV Unplugged – The Art of Musicology |
| Tenet 43. | Ruth Brown singing Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean |
| Tenet 44. | Swing dance number in Stormy Weather featuring Katherine Dunham and her troupe. 1943. |
| Tenet 45. | Spirituals as Coded Communication
http://8miller.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/0/7/59079699/the_spirituals.pdf |
| Tenet 46. | James Brown 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajzpd-ONOdo
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| Tenet 47. | James Brown Say it Load I’m Black and I’m Proud |
| Tenet 48. | Alvin Ailey: Awassa Astrige / Ostrich by Asadata Dafora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwwqA4iCV60&list=RDBwwqA4iCV60#t=7 |
| Tenet 49. | Kappa Alpha Psi – Howard University Step Show 2012 |
| Tenet 50. | Mississippi Folktales |
| Tenet 51. | Ray Charles singing I’ve got News for you – humor and tragedy blended. |
| Tenet 52. | Film by Bess Lomaz Hawes (percussive dance at 2:25) |
| Tenet 53. | Alvin Ailey Cry performed by Donna Wood |
| Tenet 54. | Miles Davis – Bitches Brew |
| Tenet 55. | Gil Scott-Heron The Revolution Will Not Be Televised |
| Tenet 56. | Art Revolution: Politics and Pop in the Robert Colescott Painting
George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/fall_2009/cutler.htm |
| Tenet 57. | John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Tenet 58. | Martin Luther King “I Have A Dream” Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0yP4aLyq1g and Mississippi children’s choir singing “His Eye Is On The Sparrow” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uatCU8QzdyA&feature=youtu.be |
| Tenet 59. | Cindy Blackman |
| Tenet 60. | Catching the Ghost |
| Tenet 61. | Alvin Ailey – “Wade in the Water” section from Revelations |
| Tenet 62. | Soul Train Papa Was A Rolling Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXbP4JBf8To and McIntosh County Shouters: Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout from Georgia |
| Tenet 63. | From Mambo to Hip-Hop: A South Bronx Tale |
| Tenet 64. | Michael Jackson – Black or White Panther Dance |
| Tenet 65. | Adinkra Symbol |
| Tenet 66. | John W. “Bubbles” Sublett and Ford “Buck” Washington |
| Tenet 67. | Dee Dee Bridgewater – Bye Bye Blackbird |
| Tenet 68. | Earl “Snake Hips” Tucker |
| Tenet 69. | A Tale of Elegua |
| Tenet 70. | Cake Walk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QifiyNm6jG4 and Language http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/14/books/playing-not-joking-with-language.html?pagewanted=all and In Living Color – Dirty Dozens |
| Tenet 71. | Julius Erving – Air Doctor |
What Makes That Black? 