Black Aesthetics: Historical and Contemporary Issues, audio tape, OT 408.24.2
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content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: Box 133, Cassette 9
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Hale Smith is one of America's most distinguished composers.  He is a professor Emeritus at the University of Connecticut.  He is a writer, consultant, and co-chair of the National Endowment for the Arts Composers Panel.  He discusses improvisational art  expression and its origins and its affects on cultural expression.

Mike Malone is a choreographer, dancer, and artistic director of Young Audiences, DC Chapter and of the Richard Allen Center for Culture and Art, New York.  He discusses dance and its influence on popular culture.

Tulani Jordan is a hair sculptress, braider, writer and educator. She discusses the issue of beauty and hair.
                  
Haile Gerima, is a professor of film at Howard University. He is an award winning filmmaker. He discusses film aesthetics as it relates to African-Americans.

Pearl Williams-Jones is an associate professor of music at the University of the District of Columbia. She is a performer, researcher and lecturer on Black American gospel music.  She discusses the black aesthetic in black gospel music.