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  • Black Music

    de LeRoi Jones ...
    Series series Akashi Classics: Renegade Reprint Series
    The essential collection of jazz writing by the celebrated poet and author of Blues People—reissued with a new introduction by the author.In the 1960s, LeRoi Jones—who would later be known as Amiri Baraka—was a pioneering jazz critic, articulating in real time the incredible transformations of the form taking place in the clubs and coffee houses of New York City. In Black Music, he sheds light on ... Leer más

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  • Home

    Social Essays

    de LeRoi Jones ...
    Series series AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series
    Essays of the 1960s by a prominent African American voice who "demands rights—not conditional favors" ( The New York Times Book Review) .Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was known not only as a poet, playwright, and founder of the Black Arts movement, but also as one of the most provocative voices of the civil rights era and beyond.These pieces, which span the years from 1960 to 1965, ... Leer más

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  • Black Music

    Free jazz e consciência negra (1959-1967)

    A maioria dos críticos de jazz até agora são americanos brancos, enquanto os principais músicos não Black Music: free jazz e consciência negra (1959-1967), de Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), é um dos exercícios mais radicais e selvagens de crítica musical que já foi posto em prática. Nestes ensaios, resenhas, entrevistas, encartes, crônicas e impressões pessoais publicados entre 1959 e 1967, Baraka ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    Blues People

    Negro Music in White America

    de LeRoi Jones ...
    Narrado por Prentice Onayemi ...

    Completo

    8 hora 54 minutos

    “The path the slave took to ‘citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen’s music—through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel, development, jazz…[If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music. ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Home

    Social Essays

    Narrado por Brad Sanders ...

    Completo

    8 hora 7 minutos

    Home is, in effect, the ideological autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. The two dozen essays that constitute this book were written during a five-year span—a turbulent and critical period for African Americans and whites. The Cuban Revolution, the Birmingham bombings, Robert Williams’s Monroe Defense movement, the Harlem riots, the assassination of Malcolm X . . . each changed the way Jones ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

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    The First Century

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  • The Other Slavery

    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

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  • Where Do We Go from Here

    Chaos or Community?

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  • Claude Ranger

    Canadian Jazz Legend

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  • A Love Supreme

    The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album

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