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Black MusicISBN 0688243444 (0-688-24344-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Black MusicISBN 0306808145 (0-306-80814-5)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Music'Book summary:This scintillating collection by Amiri Imamu Baraka, published in 1968 under his birth name Leroi Jones, covers a wide range of jazz writings from 1959 to 1967. Baraka's engaging and prophetic portraits of Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Bradford, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, Roy Haynes, Don Cherry, and John Coltrane (whom he called "the heaviest spirit") beam with an electric and fluid language that mirrors those artists' speed-of-light improvisations. In "Jazz and the White Critic," which blasts white critics who judge jazz by European, rather than African American, standards, Jones wrote, "As Western people, the sociocultural thinking of 18th-century Europe comes to us as history and legacy that is a continuous and organic part of the 20th-century West. The sociocultural philosophy of the Negro in America ... is no less specific and no less important for any intelligent critical speculation about the music that came out of it." His analysis of the burgeoning avant-garde scene in "Apple Cores #1-6," "New York Loft and Coffee Shop Jazz," and "The Jazz Avant-Garde" accurately depicts the artistic promise and peril of that period in the words of a literary genius who was there and helped create it. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Blues People: Negro Music in White AmericaISBN 068818474X (0-688-18474-X)
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Dummypppk Blues Peopleby LeRoi JonesISBN 0688168981 (0-688-16898-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Dutchman and the Slave: 2 Playsby LeRoi JonesISBN 0688210848 (0-688-21084-8)
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The Fiction of Leroi Jones - Amiri Barakaby Amiri Imamu Baraka, LeRoi Jones , Greg TateISBN 1556523467 (1-55652-346-7)
Hardcover, Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
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The Fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Barakaby Amiri Imamu Baraka, LeRoi Jones , Greg TateISBN 155652353X (1-55652-353-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka'Book summary:[via]Including 6 Persons, a previously unpublished novel; The System of Dante's Hell; and Tales, this collection also features four uncollected short stories.More editions of The Fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka:
Four Black Revolutionary Playsby LeRoi JonesISBN 0714508438 (0-7145-0843-8)
Hardcover, Calder Publications Limited
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Home: Social Essaysby LeRoi JonesISBN 0880015721 (0-88001-572-1)
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Home: Social Essaysby LeRoi JonesISBN 1933354674 (1-933354-67-4)
Softcover, Akashic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home: Social Essays'Book summary:[via]Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negroand always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rightsnot conditional favors. The New York Times Book Review
In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of Americas literary consciousness with the short story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone. This reissue features a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of 1960s social and political essays.
LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey by the New Jersey Commission on Humanities, from 20022004. His most recent book, Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic Books, 2007), was a New York Times Editors Choice. He lives in Newark, New Jersey.
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Talesby LeRoi JonesISBN 0261618504 (0-261-61850-4)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, Limited
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