Black Music, Black Poetry (eBook, ePUB)

Blues and Jazz's Impact on African American Versification
Redaktion: Thompson, Gordon E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that range from the spirituals to contemporary jazz. The poetry of familiar figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and less well-known poets like Harryette Mullen or the lyricist to Pharaoh Sanders, Amos Leon Thomas, are scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous with the lifetime of each poet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317173915
• Artikelnr.: 49353135

Autorenporträt

Gordon Thompson is Professor of English at City College of New York (CUNY), USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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.