The First World Festival of Negro Arts

Duration: 20

Year Published: 1968

Creator: Alexandra Sahia Studios

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Discloses the purpose of the First World Festival of Negro Art held in Dakar as an attempt to create an awareness of Negro art and culture. Surveys the contributions in music, dance, textiles, poetry, sculpture, and painting. Explains the art and its creation in terms of the religious, social, and evolutionary culture of Africans.

Complete Record: Discloses the purpose of the First World Festival of Negro Art held in Dakar as an attempt to create an awareness of Negro art and culture. Surveys the contributions in music, dance, textiles, poetry, sculpture, and painting. Explains the art and its creation in terms of the religious, social, and evolutionary culture of Africans., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.