20th century African American history
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African American archival research
African American avant-garde
African American cultural nationalism
African American identity formation
African American literary innovation
African American modernism
African American performance studies
African American social movements
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka scholarship
art and political transformation
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Baraka and jazz criticism
Baraka's Marxist turn
Black Arts Movement
Black Arts Movement history
black cultural criticism
black diaspora consciousness
black experimental literature
black liberation futures
Black Marxism
Black Modernity
black nationalism and socialism
black radical tradition
black urban culture
black working class identity
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civil rights era literature
countercultural black movements
cultural memory of black struggle
cultural responses to segregation
culture of black resistance
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History and Popular Music
history of black radical performance
history of black radical thought
jazz and poetry intersections
literature of resistance
music and black identity
music and liberation struggles
music as political weapon
New Jersey black history
Newark Black Power movement
political art of the 1960s
postcolonial black studies
postwar U.S. cultural politics
protest literature analysis
race and class in America
race and revolutionary imagination
radical black intellectuals
radical black poets
revolutionary black aesthetics
Social Meaning of Music
sound studies and race
spoken word and politics
urban crisis in black America
working class black politics
Product details
- ISBN 9781625345158
- Weight: 395g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 29 May 2020
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States. While Baraka's political and aesthetic stances changed considerably over the course of his career, Brick City Vanguard demonstrates the continuity in his thinking about the meaning of black music in the material, psychic, and ideological development of black people. Drawing on primary texts, paratexts (including album liner notes), audio and visual recordings, and archival sources, James Smethurst takes a new look at how Baraka's writing on and performance of music envisioned the creation of an African American people or nation, as well as the growth and consolidation of a black working class within that nation, that resonates to this day. This vision also provides a way of understanding the encounter of black people with what has been called ""the urban crisis"" and a projection of a liberated black future beyond that crisis.
James Smethurst is professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance.
