Black music, Black poetry : blues and jazz's impact on African American versification /

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Imprint:	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
Description:	xvi, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism. Jazz in literature. English language -- Rhythm. African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. African Americans -- Intellectual life. American poetry -- African American authors. English language -- Rhythm. Jazz in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10144260

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Varying Form of Title:	Blues and jazz's impact on African American versification
Other authors / contributors:	Thompson, Gordon E., editor.
ISBN:	9781409428367 1409428362 9781472430595 9781472430601
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index.
Summary:	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.
Standard no.:	40023904335

Table of Contents:

Authenticity in Black music and poetry
Original rags: African-American secular music and the cultural legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry / Ray Sapirstein
Paul Laurence Dunbar and the spirituals / Lauri Ramey
"Greatest is the song": blues as poetic communication in early Langston Hughes and Sterling A. Brown / John Edgar Tidwell
"A real, solid, sane, racial something": Langston Hughes's blues poetry / David Chinitz
Part 2. Jazz: its spiritual lyricism
The funk aesthetic in African-American poetry / Tony Bolden
"Go in the wilderness": the missionary impulse of Michael Harper's poetry / Joseph Brown
Part 3. Lyricism and the sonic aesthetic
Amiri Baraka: phenomenologist of jazz spirit / Christopher Winks
Nathaniel Mackey's "Song of the andoumboulou": making different music / Scarlett Higgins
Hearing a new musical instrument: Harryette Mullen's critical lyricism / Lisa Mansell
Part 4. Transformational lyricism
"Taking it out!": Jayne Cortez's collaborations with the firespitters / Renee M. Kingan
Pops, pygmies, and pentecostal fire: Sanders and Thomas's "The creator has a master plan" / Michael Coyle.

Black music, Black poetry : blues and jazz's impact on African American versification /

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