The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2012-04
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 1613745893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe complete autobiography of a literary legend.
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Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-05-26
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 0520943090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times, and places he's encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous—Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane—and on those whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados—Alan Shorter, Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka's literary style, with its deep roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musician friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered. He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, providing us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging.
Tales of the Out & the Gone
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2009-12-01
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1933354127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKControversial literary legend Amiri Baraka's new short story collection will shock and awe.
How I Became Hettie Jones
Author: Hettie Jones
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0802196780
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A thoughtful, intimate memoir of life in the burgeoning movement of new jazz, poetry, and politics . . . in Lower Manhattan in the late 1950s and early 1960s” (Alix Kate Shulman, The Nation). Greenwich Village in the 1950s was a haven to which young poets, painters, and 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 African American poet LeRoi Jones. This is her reminiscence of life in the awakening East Village in the era of the Beats, Black Power, and bohemia. “As the wife of controversial black playwright-poet LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka), Hettie Cohen, a white Jew from Queens, NY, plunged into the Greenwich Village bohemia of jazz, poetry, leftish politics and underground publishing in the late 1950s. Their life together ended in 1965, partly, she implies, because of separatist pressures on blacks to end their interracial marriages. In this restrained autobiographical mix of introspection and gossip, the author writes of coping with racial prejudice and violence, raising two daughters, and of living in the shadow of her husband. When the couple divorced, she became a children’s book author and poet. The memoir is dotted with glimpses of Allen Ginsberg, Thelonious Monk, Jack Kerouac, Frank O’Hara, Billie Holiday, James Baldwin, Franz Kline, among others.” —Publishers Weekly
S O S
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2015-03-03
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0802191584
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“S O S provides readers with rich, vital views of the African American experience and of Baraka’s own evolution as a poet-activist” (The Washington Post). Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century (The New York Times). Selected by Paul Vangelisti, this volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka’s rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years. Throughout Baraka’s career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. The environments and social values that inspired his poetics changed during the course of his life, a trajectory that can be traced in this retrospective spanning more than five decades of profoundly evolving subjects and techniques. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology. All along, his primary focus was on how to live and love in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human history. A New York Times Editors’ Choice “A big handsome book of Amiri Baraka’s poetry [that gives] us word magic, wit, wild thoughts, discomfort, and pleasure.” —William J. Harris, Boston Review “The most complete representation of over a half-century of revolutionary and breathtaking work.” —Claudia Rankine, The New York Times Book Review
Somebody Blew Up America, & Other Poems
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780913441725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry. African American Studies. "The publication of Amiri Baraka's SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA & OTHER POEMS makes one more mark in the development in modern Black radical & revolutionary cultural reconstruction... Readers of course will want as quick as possible to read for them-self the now controversial title poem..., but check-out, among the others, "In Town"--pure-pure dark post-Plantation molasses..."--Kamau Brathwaite.
A Nation within a Nation
Author: Komozi Woodard
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005-10-12
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0807876178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal spread of black nationalism in the urban centers of late-twentieth-century America, including his part in the election of black public officials, his leadership in the Modern Black Convention Movement, and his work in housing and community development. Komozi Woodard traces Baraka's transformation from poet to political activist, as the rise of the Black Arts Movement pulled him from political obscurity in the Beat circles of Greenwich Village, swept him into the center of the Black Power Movement, and ultimately propelled him into the ranks of black national political leadership. Moving outward from Baraka's personal story, Woodard illuminates the dynamics and remarkable rise of black cultural nationalism with an eye toward the movement's broader context, including the impact of black migrations on urban ethos, the importance of increasing population concentrations of African Americans in the cities, and the effect of the 1965 Voting Rights Act on the nature of black political mobilization.
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: New York : Freundlich Books : Distributed to the trade by Scribner
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis prose-poem styled memoir of poet, novelist, playwright and black activist delineates the politics and the personal drama of the man who has dared face injustice with violence and flaunted his pride in black chauvinism. Chronicling the first forty years of his life, the book tells how Jones/Baraka comes into being from his middle-class roots in Newark, and how his journey through Howard University, the Air Force, beat Greenwich Village, incendiary Harlem, polemic Newark and the caverns of his own heart dictated his reaction to a racist society and etched the nuances of his soul. His testimony is an unreplicable view of the recent struggles of black Americans and the society which they have confronted. ISBN 0-88191-000-7 : $16.95.
In Our Terribleness
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"There are mostly portraits here. Portraits of life. Of life being lived. Black People inspire us. Send life into us ... We wanted to conjure with Black Life to recreate it for our selves. So that the connection with you would be a bigger Self"--From unnumbered page 13.
Reading Jazz
Author: Robert Gottlieb
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2014-02-19
Total Pages: 1087
ISBN-13: 0307797279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Comprehensive and intelligently organized. . . . Jazz aficionados . . . should be grateful to have so much good writing on the subject in one place."--The New York Times Book Review "Alluring. . . . Capture[s] much of the breadth of the music, as well as the passionate debates it has stirred, more vividly than any other jazz anthology to date."--Chicago Tribune No musical idiom has inspired more fine writing than jazz, and nowhere has that writing been presented with greater comprehensiveness and taste than in this glorious collection. In Reading Jazz, editor Robert Gottlieb combs through eighty years of autobiography, reportage, and criticism by the music's greatest players, commentators, and fans to create what is at once a monumental tapestry of jazz history and testimony to the elegance, vigor, and variety of jazz writing. Here are Jelly Roll Morton, recalling the whorehouse piano players of New Orleans in 1902; Whitney Balliett, profiling clarinetist Pee Wee Russell; poet Philip Larkin, with an eloquently dyspeptic jeremiad against bop. Here, too, are the voices of Billie Holiday and Charles Mingus, Albert Murray and Leonard Bernstein, Stanley Crouch and LeRoi Jones, reminiscing, analyzing, celebrating, and settling scores. For anyone who loves the music--or the music of great prose--Reading Jazz is indispensable. "The ideal gift for jazzniks and boppers everywhere. . . . It gathers the best and most varied jazz writing of more than a century."--Sunday Times (London)
