These three video recordings capture a panel of presentations at the 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium, which was hosted at Emory’s University’s Woodruff Library on Friday, April 20, 2018. Presenters discuss Atlanta’s art, music, and eduction in relation to the city’s class and cultural politics during its governance by black mayors from Maynard Jackson’s election in 1973 to Keisha Lance Bottoms’s election in 2017. Presenters include Maurice J. Hobson, associate professor of African American studies at Georgia State University, who also chaired the panel, Joycelyn Wilson, assistant professor of black media studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, and R. Candy Tate, assistant director of Emory’s Center for Creativity and Arts.
Forging the New Motown of the South: Maynard Jackson, Politics, and Art in the Creation of the Dirty South
by Maurice J. Hobson
Atlanta Got a Mayor Named Keisha: Examining the Political Influence of the Hip Hop Generation
by Joycelyn Wilson
“Our Art Itself was Our Activism”: Visualizing Cultural Politics in Atlanta
by R. Candy Tate
Cover Image Attribution: Romare Bearden with Mayor Maynard Jackson in front of the Kutz Building mural. Photo by Billy Downs. AJCP098-38a, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. Copyright Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Courtesy Georgia State University.
Citation: Hobson, Maurice J., Joycelyn Wilson, and R. Candy Tate. “Music and Art in the Black Mecca: Atlanta’s Black Cultural Politics from Maynard to Keisha.” Atlanta Studies. June 14, 2018. https://doi.org/10.18737/atls20180614.
