Jazz griots
Subtitle: music as history in the 1960s African American poem
By: Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739166734
Subjects: African American authors; Rhythm; Jazz in literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; English language; American poetry; Griots; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sound of grammar : blues and jazz as meta-languages; title: Of storytelling in Langston Hughes's Ask your mama; title: Move on up : free jazz and rhythm and blues; title: Performativities as creative acts of cultural; title: Re-inscription in David Henderson's De mayor of Harlem; title: Sister in the struggle : jazz linguistics and the feminized; title: Quest for a communicative 'sound' in Sonia Sanchez's; title: Home coming and we a baddDDD people; title: Birth of a free jazz nation : Amiri Baraka's jazz : historiography from black magic to Wise, why's, y's.