Artist and Influence - Volume XXX (2011)

James V. Hatch / Judy Blum (Editors). 
Artist and Influence: Volume  XXX.

New York:  Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc, 2011.
Softcover. 
288 pages. 

Very good. 
Minor edge wear. 

Interviews with Shafik Benjamin, Juanita Boyd and Mel Hardy, Michael Cummings, David Fludd, C. Lester Franklin, David Henderson, Aku Kadogo, Henry Miller Ph.D., Jimmy Owens, Kathy Perkins, Georgiana Pickett, Larry Ridley, Ted Shine, Michael Simon, Javaka Steptoe, John Steptoe, Ann Tanksley, Dorothy Thigpen, Brenda and Larry Thompson, Jane White, Renauld White, The Founding of Artist and Influence - Camille Billops & James V. Hatch.

Poetry by Kitty Chow, Winifred Eileen Derryck, Gail Goldsmith, James V. Hatch, d.j. houston, Gale Jackson, glenngo allen king, Pamela L. La Bonne, Erik La Prade, Denizé Lauture, Suzanne Noguere, and Victoria Sullivan.

Artist and Influence is an annual journal published by the Hatch-Billops Collection in New York. Among other materials, Hatch-Billops houses an archival collection of oral histories of African American and some Asian and Hispanic artists from all fields of the performing, graphic, and spatial arts.

Interviews with Black and Asian filmmakers, actors, musicians, sculptors, photographers, animators, choreographers, singers, and painters, provide new information about the role of minority groups in the development of the American arts. Many of the figures whose words are transcribed were elderly when they were interviewed. Their perceptions shed new light on movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, the role of Black musicians during the Depression, or the resistance of Hollywood filmmakers during the 1930s and 40s to using Black actors and actresses.