Brick city vanguard : Amiri Baraka, Black music, Black modernity / James Smethurst.

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"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 V...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:African American intellectual history.
Main Author: Smethurst, James Edward (Author)
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
Series:African American intellectual history.
Subjects:
Baraka, Amiri, > 1934-2014 > Criticism and interpretation.
Baraka, Amiri, > 1934-2014.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
Black nationalism > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Music.
Black nationalism.
United States.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Physical Description:xi, 227 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "That's where Sarah Vaughan lives" : Amiri Baraka, Newark, and the landscape and soundscape of Black modernity
  • "Formal renditions": revisiting the Baraka--Ellison debate
  • "A marching song for some strange uncharted country": The Black future and Amiri Baraka's liner notes
  • "Soul and Madness": Baraka's recorded music and poetry from Bohemia to Black arts
  • "I see him sometimes": William Parker reimagines and Amiri Baraka glosses Curtis Mayfield.