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African American Musical Tradition
African American Poetry
African American Secular Music
African American Vernacular Culture
African Americans
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Black Arts Movement
Black Music
Black Poetry
Black Vernacular
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Du Boisian Double Consciousness
Dunbar's Poems
Dunbar's Poetry
Dunbar's Work
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Dunbar’s Poems
Dunbar’s Poetry
Dunbar’s Work
Electronic Drum Kit
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Free Jazz
Maintain Control
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Mullen's Text
Mullen’s Text
Muni Bird
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Slave Songs
Sterling Brown
Sun Ra
Superb
Transcendent Lyric
Vice Versa
Weary Blues
Product details
- ISBN 9781138270565
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that range from the spirituals to contemporary jazz. The poetry of familiar figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and less well-known poets like Harryette Mullen or the lyricist to Pharaoh Sanders, Amos Leon Thomas, is scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous with the lifetime of each poet. Black music is considered the strongest representation of black American communal consciousness; and black poetry, by drawing upon such a musical legacy, lays claim to a powerful and enduring black aesthetic. The contributors to this volume take on issues of black cultural authenticity, of musical imitation, and of poetic performance as displayed in the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Nathaniel Mackey, Jayne Cortez, Harryette Mullen, and Amos Leon Thomas. Taken together, these essays offer a rich examination of the breath of black poetry and the ties it has to the rhythms and forms of black music and the influence of black music on black poetic practice.
Gordon Thompson is Professor of English at City College of New York (CUNY), USA.
