Black chant
Subtitle: languages of African-American postmodernism
By: Aldon Lynn Nielsen.
Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;; 105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Music and literature -- History -- 20th century.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States.; Modernism (Literature) -- United States.; African Americans in literature.; African American arts.; Race in literature.
Description: A valuable reassessment of African-American cultural history, Black Chant traces the embrace and transformation of black modernisms and postmodernisms by African-American poets in the decades after World War II. Centering on groups of avant-garde poets such as the Howard/Dasein poets, the Freelance group, the Umbra group, and others, Nielsen attends to those poets whose radical forms of new writing formed the basis for much of what followed in the Black Arts period.

As well, he undertakes a critical rediscovery of recordings by the poets Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, and Elouise Loftin, who worked with jazz composers and performers on compositions that combined post-Bop jazz with postmodern verse forms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280) and index.