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Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones; October 7, 1934 January 9, 2014), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an...

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The Autobiography Of Leroi Jones

Author:

Amiri Baraka

Publisher:

Freundlich Books

Binding:

Hardcover

Pages:

329

ISBN #:

0881910007

EAN Code:

9780881910001

The complete autobiography of a literary legend. Poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature. Adriving force behind the Black Arts Movement, the prolific Baraka retells his exper...

The Dead Lecturer: Poems.

Author:

LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka

Publisher:

Grove Press

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

79

ISBN #:

0394172477

EAN Code:

9780394172477

How I Became Hettie Jones

Author:

Hettie Jones

Publisher:

Grove Press

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

256

ISBN #:

0802134963

EAN Code:

9780802134967

Greenwich Village in the 1950s was a haven to which young poets, painters, and jazz musicians flocked. Among them was Hettie Cohen, who'd been born into a middle-class Jewish family in Queens and who'd chosen to cross racial barriers to marry the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones. Theirs was a bo...

Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry Of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (1961-1995)

Author:

Amiri Baraka, Imamu Amiri Baraka

Publisher:

Marsilio Publishers

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

296

ISBN #:

1568860145

EAN Code:

9781568860145

The first collection of selected poetry from perhaps the preeminent African American literary figure of our time. Baraka almost single-handedly changed both the nature and the form of post-World War II African-American literature, and this volume is an important contribution to Modernist literature.

Black Music (Akashiclassics: Renegade Reprint Series)

Author:

Leroi Jones / Amiri Baraka

Publisher:

Akashic Books

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

240

ISBN #:

1933354933

EAN Code:

9781933354934

"Jones has learned—and this has been very rare in jazz criticism—to write about music as an artist."—Nat Hentoff ksBlack Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and ...

Dutchman And The Slave: Two Plays

Author:

LeRoi Jones

Publisher:

Harper Perennial

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

87

ISBN #:

0688210848

EAN Code:

9780688210847

Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking plays--in ideas, in language, in honest anger. They illuminate as with a flash of lightning a deadly serious problem--and they bring an eloquent and exceptionally powerful voice to the American theatre....

The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader

Author:

Amiri Baraka

Publisher:

Basic Books

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

624

ISBN #:

1560252383

EAN Code:

9781560252382

Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant, prolific, an...

Blues People: Negro Music In White America

Author:

Leroi Jones

Publisher:

Harper Perennial

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

256

ISBN #:

068818474X

EAN Code:

9780688184742

"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in ...

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