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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819885203321

Autore

Marcoux Jean-Philippe <1977->

Titolo

Jazz griots : music as history in the 1960s African American poem / / Jean-Philippe Marcoux

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

0-7391-6674-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

811/.509357

Soggetti

American poetry - African American authors - History and criticism

Jazz in literature

Griots

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

English language - Rhythm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

JAZZ GRIOTS; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Intravernacular Dialogues, Jazz Performativity, and the Griot's Meta-linguistic Praxes ; Chapter 1 The Sound of Grammar: Blues and Jazz as Meta-languages of Storytelling in Langston Hughes's Ask Your Mama; Chapter 2 Move On Up: Free Jazz and Rhythm and Blues Performativities as Creative Acts of Cultural Re-inscription in David Henderson's De Mayor of Harlem; Chapter 3 Sister in the Struggle: Jazz Linguistics and the Feminized Quest for a Communicative ""Sound"" in Sonia Sanchez's Home Coming and We A BaddDDD People

Chapter 4 Birth of a Free Jazz Nation: Amiri Baraka's Jazz Historiography from Black Magic to Wise Why's Y's Coda; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hypotheses about how Black poets transcribe jazz into the poetic format, this book, while providing a different approach to reading jazz poetry, attempts to answer the question, why do Black poets revert to jazz for poetic material. This book's answer is because jazz is Black History ritualized and performed, and jazz performance is storytelling.