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Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
Lorenzo Thomas
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Description for Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
Hardcover. Contains essays which explore the interrelationships among African American music, literature, and, popular culture. This book lays out the case for the blues as constituting a body of literature, and then offers a tour of the movement through classic jazz, bop, and the explosions of the free jazz era, followed by a section on R&B and Soul. Editor(s): Nielsen, Aldon Lynn. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVG; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
This book contains reflections on the relationships between black American intellectuals and African American musical traditions from blues to hip hop.These learned but engagingly personal essays by the late poet and critic Lorenzo Thomas explore the interrelationships among African American music, literature, and popular culture, from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Thomas (1944-2005) was an important American poet and a leading literary figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. His own work was profoundly influenced by black musical forms, providing a unique historical and aesthetic perspective that sets this book apart from other books that examine black ... Read more
This book contains reflections on the relationships between black American intellectuals and African American musical traditions from blues to hip hop.These learned but engagingly personal essays by the late poet and critic Lorenzo Thomas explore the interrelationships among African American music, literature, and popular culture, from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Thomas (1944-2005) was an important American poet and a leading literary figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. His own work was profoundly influenced by black musical forms, providing a unique historical and aesthetic perspective that sets this book apart from other books that examine black ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472098927
SKU
V9780472098927
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About Lorenzo Thomas
Lorenzo Thomas was the author of numerous books of poetry and criticism, including A Visable Island, Fit Music, California Songs, and Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and Twentieth-Century American Poetry. He began his career in the 1960s and was an important member of the Black Arts Movement of that era. Aldon Nielsen is George and Barbara Kelly Professor in American Literature ... Read more
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