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Blaxploitation
Conference
Friday, October 9, 1998
Welcome &
Introduction
Pauline Yu,
dean, College of Letters & Science-Humanities, UCLA
Valerie Smith, co-director,
Cultural Studies in the African Diaspora Project; chair,
Afro-American Studies; professor of English, UCLA; conference
co-organizer
David Bailey, co-director,
African and Asian Visual Artists Archive, University of East London;
conference co-organizer; exhibit co-curator
Panel
1: Reinventing Histories
Moderator
- David Bailey
Independence,
Innovation? or Imitation?: The Political, Economic, and Aesthetic
Implications of Independent Cinema
Haile
Gerima,
Mypheduh Films, Howard University
Paul Robeson
and the Modernist Aesthetic
Hazel Carby,
Yale University
Keynote
Panel: Black
Imagination
Moderator
- Richard Yarborough, acting director, Center for African American
Studies; professor of English, UCLA
Isaac Julien,
Harvard University
Bustin' Loose: The
Gangsta, The Minstrel - Black Image Migrations Through Space and
Time
Judith Wilson,
UC Irvine
Saturday, October
10, 1998, Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall
Panel 1: Gangsterism
and Urban Spaces
Moderator
- Richard Yarborough
Language, Performance
and Blaxploitation Culture
Marcyliena
Morgan,
UCLA/Harvard University
Harlem Invents Film Noir
David Bailey
Making "Welcome II
the Terrordome"
Ngozi
Onwurah, YAM
YAM Productions, UK
Panel 2:
Redefining Genres
Moderator
- Judith Wilson
Taming the Freeway and Other
Acts of Urban Hip-notism: African American Performance in the 1970s
Kellie
Jones,
Wellesley College
Change the Style: How Pop
Video Re-Invented Black Film
Armond White,
The Nation
Black Cinema of the '70s
Andres
Chavez,
Miramax/Rolling Thunder
Panel 3:
Transgression & Passing
Moderator
- Isaac Julien
Midnight Style: Art and
Fashion of the Black Movie Experience
Ron Finley,
Drop Dead Collection, Los Angeles
The Jazz Left
Herman Gray,
UC Santa Cruz
Double Identity: The
Practice and Politics of Passing
Lola Young,
Middlesex University, UK
Final Remarks
Richard J.
Powell, professor and chair of Art History, Duke University; exhibit
co-curator
Richard Yarborough
Marcyilena Morgan,
co-director, Cultural Studies in the African Diaspora Project;
associate professor of Anthropology; visiting associate professor of
Education, Harvard University
The
original soundtrack is as follows:
Side A
- Fats Waller: Harlem
Fuss (1929)
- Sterling A. Brown: Ma
Rainey
- Marvin Gaye: T Stands
for Trouble (1972)- From the movie Trouble Man
- Saul Williams: Twice
the First Time (1998)
- Leon Bibb: I Am Free
(1969)
- O.C. Smith with Gordon
Parks: Blowin Your Mind (1972)-From the movie Shafts
Big Score
- The Last Poets: New
York, New York (1973)
- Bobby Womack: Harlem
Clavinette (1972)- From the movie Across 110th Street
- Langston Hughes: The
Struggle
- Louis Armstrong: Wild
Man Blues (1927)
- Wanda Robinson: Celebration
(1971)
- The Dream Warriors: You Think I Don't Know (1995)
- Curtis Mayfield: Freddie's
Dead (1972) - From the movie Superfly
Side B
- Edwin Starr: Easin In
(1974)- From the movie Hell Up in Harlem
- Kamau Daaood:
Liberator of the Spirit (1997)
- Duke Ellington: Tootie
for Cootie
- Jessica Care Moore: Fiction
(1997)
- Monk Higgins: Get
Down Sheba (1975)-From the movie Sheba, Baby
- Gil Scott Heron: The
Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1974)
- Langston Hughes: The
Story of the Blues
- Issac Hayes: Hung Up
On My Baby (1974)- From the movie Tough Guys
- Ice T: Soul on Ice
(1988)
- Sterling A. Brown:
Sharecroppers
- Digable Planets: La
Femme Fetal (1993)
- Melvin Van Peeples: Sweetback's
Theme (1971)-From the movie Sweet Sweetback's
Baadassss Song
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