Black Music
Essays on Jazz
$24.20
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2027
Summary
In Black Music, Baraka wrote with ecstasy - highly informed and intricate - about ecstatically complex music. NEW YORKER
LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka, was one of the most pioneering and influential jazz critics of the 1960s. The essays collected here show him articulating in real time the astonishing transformations taking place in the clubs and coffee houses of New York City during jazz music’s most febrile creative era.
An essential read for any follower…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399638494 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399638491 |
| Author: | LeRoi Jones - |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | White Rabbit |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 205g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | White Rabbit Deep Cuts |
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Critics Review
Baraka wrote with ecstasy - highly informed and intricate - about ecstatically complex music … he wrote with wide-ranging erudition, tracing influences within the history of jazz and comparing them with the lineages of other art forms … He was a bardic theorist who gave a musical language to music, artistic language to the experience of art – Richard Brody * NEW YORKER *
Captures the ferment, energy and excitement of the avant-garde jazz scene … Provides a composite picture of Baraka’s evolving thought, aesthetic values and literary experimentation … Black Music is an essential guide to a period of political and artistic upheaval * Close Readings, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS *
Baraka was a jazz man to the bone; he recognised in the music a potent and radical means of cultural expression. His writings on jazz shed penetrating light on both the art form and its social context, which he understood to be more or less inextricable * JAZZ TIMES *
LeRoi Jones -
Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones (1934-2014)
Author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
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