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Brick City Vanguard : Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity /

"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, Br...

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Autor principal: Smethurst, James Edward (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Brick City Vanguard
  • Chapter One. "That's Where Sarah Vaughan Lives": Amiri Baraka, Newark, and the Landscape and Soundscape of Black Modernity
  • Chapter Two. "Formal Renditions": Revisiting the Baraka-Ellison Debate
  • Chapter Three. "A Marching Song for Some Strange Uncharted Country": The Black Future and Amiri Baraka's Liner Notes
  • Chapter Four. "Soul and Madness": Baraka's Recorded Music and Poetry from Bohemia to Black Arts
  • Chapter Five. "I See Him Sometimes": William Parker Reimagines and Amiri Baraka Glosses Curtis Mayfield
  • Conclusion: Blues People at Symphony Hall
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author
  • Back Cover