Black Music
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Word Count
63,250 words, Guess
Page Count
253 pages
Physical Format
EBook
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781936070725
- ISBN-101936070723
- OverDrive2D53BF77-9305-49B1-B590-CE8C6CF6836C
- OCLC Control Number654829158
- Better World Books9781936070725
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL24296089M
Description
"Jones has learned—and this has been very rare in jazz criticism—to write about music as an artist."—Nat HentoffIn 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) back into the forefront of America's literary consciousness with the short story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone. Now, this reissue of Black Music—long out of print—features a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of essays on jazz criticism, the creative process, and the development of a new way forward for black artists. This edition includes a new introduction by the author and a Q&A by Calvin Reid.Black 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 others. This rich and vital collection is comprised of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959–1967.
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