Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity
Author:   James Smethurst
Publisher:   University of Massachusetts Press
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9781625345158


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   30 May 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   James Smethurst
Publisher:   University of Massachusetts Press
Imprint:   University of Massachusetts Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.395kg
ISBN:  

9781625345158


ISBN 10:   1625345151
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   30 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: The Brick City Vanguard Chapter One: """"That's Where Sarah Vaughn Lives"""": Amiri Baraka, Newark, and the Landscape and Soundscape of Black Modernity Chapter Two: """"Formal Renditions"""": Revisiting the Baraka-Ellison Debate Chapter Three: """"A Marching Song for Some Strange Uncharted Country"""": The Black Future and Amiri Baraka's Liner Notes Chapter Four: """"Soul and Madness"""": Baraka's Recorded Music and Poetry from Bohemia to Black Arts Chapter Five: """"I See Him Sometimes"""": William Parker Reimagines and Amiri Baraka Glosses Curtis Mayfield Conclusion: Blues People at Symphony Hall"

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Once again, with Brick City Vanguard, James Smethurst proves that he is one of the leading scholars of the Black Arts Movement, of New Left literary studies, and of one of its emblematic writers, Amiri Baraka.--Jean-Philippe Marcoux, cofounder of the Amiri Baraka Society and author of Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem James Smethurst has read everything on Baraka and produced an original and important book. Brick City Vanguard is a major contribution to the field.--William J. Harris, author of The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka: The Jazz Aesthetic


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James Smethurst is professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance.

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