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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smethurst, James Edward, author.

Series:

African American Intellectual History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014--Criticism and interpretation.

Baraka, Amiri.

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century.

Black nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Brick City Vanguard

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781613767641

1613767641

OCLC:

1157210043