03084nam 2200649 450 991081988520332120200520144314.00-7391-6674-3(CKB)2550000001250618(EBL)1921136(SSID)ssj0001184662(PQKBManifestationID)12512977(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001184662(PQKBWorkID)11195800(PQKB)10779136(MiAaPQ)EBC1921136(Au-PeEL)EBL1921136(CaPaEBR)ebr10854227(CaONFJC)MIL585127(OCoLC)878146440(EXLCZ)99255000000125061820140408h20122012 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrJazz griots music as history in the 1960s African American poem /Jean-Philippe MarcouxLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2012.©20121 online resource (244 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-6673-5 1-306-53876-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 PeopleChapter 4 Birth of a Free Jazz Nation: Amiri Baraka's Jazz Historiography from Black Magic to Wise Why's Y's Coda; Bibliography; IndexTo 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.American poetryAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismJazz in literatureGriotsAfrican AmericansIntellectual life20th centuryEnglish languageRhythmAmerican poetryAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Jazz in literature.Griots.African AmericansIntellectual lifeEnglish languageRhythm.811/.509357Marcoux Jean-Philippe1977-1718843MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819885203321Jazz griots4116127UNINA