Black Music, Black Poetry: Blues and Jazz's Impact on African American Versification
- Editor: Thompson, Gordon
these essays provide rich insight into the fascinating subject of jazz, improvisatory music, and poetry, and how their forms and structures enhance each art form. Recommended. Upper-division... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Foreword
- Introduction: lyrical aesthetics in African American poetry, Gordon E. Thompson. Part I 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 II 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 A. Brown. Part III 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 IV 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
- References
- Index.