Afro-blue
Subtitle: improvisations in African American poetry and culture
By: Tony Bolden.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; African Americans -- Intellectual life.; African Americans in literature.; Improvisation in art.
Description: "In Afro-Blue Tony Bolden traces the ways innovations in black music and poetry have driven the evolution of a variety of another American vernacular artistic forms. The blues tradition, Bolden demonstrates, plays a key role in the relationship between poetry and vernacular expressive forms."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-162) and index.