Black music, Black poetry : blues and jazz's impact on African American versification / edited by Gordon E. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thompson, Gordon, 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--African American authors.

Jazz in literature.

English language--Rhythm.

English language.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

xvi, 205 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1409428362

9781409428367

OCLC:

861755009

Publisher Number:

99959211519