{"id":11857,"date":"2020-02-10T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=11857"},"modified":"2020-02-10T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T23:02:20","slug":"black-history-month-featuring-kendrick-lamar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/black-history-month-featuring-kendrick-lamar\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month featuring Kendrick Lamar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/BHM_1MenofChange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11825\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/BHM_1MenofChange.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/BHM_1MenofChange.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/BHM_1MenofChange-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>During the month of February, in celebration of Black History Month, Collins Library will be featuring posts on some of the men celebrated in the traveling exhibition \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonhistory.org\/visit\/wshm\/exhibits\/menofchange\/\">Men of Change:\u00a0 Power. Triumph. Truth.<\/a>\u201d currently on display at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. <em>Men of Change <\/em>opened December 21, 2019 and will close March 15, 2020. The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service developed the exhibit and maintains a <a href=\"https:\/\/menofchange.si.edu\/\">website<\/a> with additional information on the highlighted men.<\/p>\n<p>The Men of Change are arranged by seven themes:\u00a0 Storytellers, Myth-Breakers, Fathering, Community, Imagining, Catalysts, and Loving. Artists were invited to interpret each of the men in portraits that are as diverse as the African-Americans they represent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11861\" style=\"width: 765px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/MythBreaker-Kendrick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11861\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/MythBreaker-Kendrick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/MythBreaker-Kendrick.jpg 755w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/MythBreaker-Kendrick-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Right) Kendrick Lamar, photograph by Andrew Lih, 2018.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Myth-Breakers:\u00a0 Kendrick Lamar<br \/>\n<\/strong>African-American musician Kendrick Lamar\u2019s 2017 LP <em>Damn<\/em> became the first Hip-Hop album to win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Music, recognized by the awards organization as being \u201ca virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life.\u201d Hailing from Compton, CA, Lamar rose to mainstream prominence with his second studio album, <em>To Pimp a Butterfly<\/em>, which won the Grammy for Best Rap Album in 2016. <em>Damn<\/em>, in addition to the Pulitzer Prize, also won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. In total, The Recording Academy has awarded Kendrick Lamar thirteen gilded gramophones. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/2\/15\/11004624\/grammys-2016-watch-kendrick-lamar-perform-alright-the-blacker-the-berry\">explosive performance<\/a> at the 58<sup>th<\/sup> Grammy Awards became one of the cultural touchstones of 2016. Lamar was also responsible for curating the soundtrack for the 2018 Marvel film, <em>Black Panther<\/em>, directed by another of the exhibition\u2019s Myth-Breakers, Ryan Coogler.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_11863\" style=\"width: 583px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/Kendrick-2pics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11863\" class=\"wp-image-11863 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/Kendrick-2pics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/Kendrick-2pics.jpg 573w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/Kendrick-2pics-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of Kendrick Lamar by Christopher Polk. Figure in the Urban Landscape #25 <br \/> (portrait of Kendrick Lamar) [Kendrick Lamar], 2018. Derrick Adams. Courtesy of the artist.<\/p><\/div><strong>Kendrick Lamar albums<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Section.80 (2011)<\/li>\n<li>Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (2012)<\/li>\n<li>To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)<\/li>\n<li>Damn (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Black Panther Soundtrack (2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_11865\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/DerrickAdams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11865\" class=\"wp-image-11865\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2020\/02\/DerrickAdams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bio and photograph from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.derrickadams.com\/bio\">artist website;<\/a><br \/> photograph by Mark Poucher.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Portrait Artist:\u00a0 Derrick Adams<br \/>\n<\/strong>Derrick Adams is a Baltimore-born, Brooklyn, New York-based artist whose critically admired work spans painting, collage, sculpture, performance, video, and sound installations. His multidisciplinary practice engages the ways in which individuals\u2019 ideals, aspirations, and personae become attached to specific objects, colors, textures, symbols, and ideologies. His work probes the influence of popular culture on the formation of self-image, and the relationship between man and monument as they coexist and embody one another. Adams is also deeply immersed in questions of how African American experiences intersect with art history, American iconography, and consumerism.<\/p>\n<p>*Burton, Justin Adams.\u00a0\u201c \u201cCheap and Easy Radicalism\u201d\u00a0 The Legible Politics of Kendrick Lamar<em>,<\/em>\u201d<em> Posthuman Rap<\/em>. New York, NY: Oxford UP, 2017. Web. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordscholarship.com\/view\/10.1093\/oso\/9780190235451.001.0001\/oso-9780190235451-chapter-3\">https:\/\/www.oxfordscholarship.com\/view\/10.1093\/oso\/9780190235451.001.0001\/oso-9780190235451-chapter-3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Exhibit photographs by Angela Weaver, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the month of February, in celebration of Black History Month, Collins Library will be featuring posts on some of the men celebrated in the traveling exhibition \u201cMen of Change:\u00a0 Power. Triumph. Truth.\u201d currently on display at the Washington State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/black-history-month-featuring-kendrick-lamar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity-inclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11857"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11896,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857\/revisions\/11896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}