Black Music, Black Poetry

Black Music, Black Poetry
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 222
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317173922
ISBN-13 : 1317173929
Rating : 4/5 (929 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Black Music, Black Poetry by : Gordon E. Thompson

Download or read book Black Music, Black Poetry written by Gordon E. Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, is scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous with the lifetime of each poet. Black music is considered the strongest representation of black American communal consciousness; and black poetry, by drawing upon such a musical legacy, lays claim to a powerful and enduring black aesthetic. The contributors to this volume take on issues of black cultural authenticity, of musical imitation, and of poetic performance as displayed in the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Nathaniel Mackey, Jayne Cortez, Harryette Mullen, and Amos Leon Thomas. Taken together, these essays offer a rich examination of the breath of black poetry and the ties it has to the rhythms and forms of black music and the influence of black music on black poetic practice.

Black Music, Black Poetry Related Books

Black Music, Black Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Gordon E. Thompson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-15 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

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
Toni Morrison
Language: en
Pages: 390
Authors: Carmen Gillespie
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-30 - Publisher: Bucknell University Press

GET EBOOK

Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty plus years, Morrison’s work has
It's Called the Sugar Plum
Language: en
Pages: 44
Authors: Israel Horovitz
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1968 - Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

GET EBOOK

THE STORY: Zuckerman, a college student, has ran over and killed a young man riding a skate board. As the play opens he is in his room pasting newspaper clippin
Family Matters
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Ruth Lyn Meese
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-19 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

GET EBOOK

This volume is designed to give librarians and teachers guidance on the subject of adoption and foster care—both as themes in children's literature and as iss
Black Nature
Language: en
Pages: 426
Authors: Camille T. Dungy
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

GET EBOOK

Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which A