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Author: Ted Joans
Publisher:
Published: 1973-01-01
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780714509044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ted Joans
Publisher:
Published: 1973-01-01
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780714509044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ted Joans
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0809000938
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Jazz is my religion, and surrealism is my point of view." Ted Joans was one of the first Beat poets in the Greenwich Village arts scene, pioneering a movement that often overlooked his profound contributions. His poetry mixes the rhythms of jazz music with “hand grenades” of truth, and his live reading performance style anticipated the spoken word movement. Black Pow-Wow is a collection of the best of Joans’ early poetry, including such well-known poems as “Jazz Is My Religion,” “Passed On Blues: Homage to a Poet,” and “The Nice Colored Man.” Many of his poems speak to his friends and contemporaries--including Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Salvador Dali, Andre Breton, and particularly Langston Hughes--as well as his extensive travels across the African continent and around the world. His avante-garde poems also reflect his style as a painter and collage artist, call for social protest, and denounce racism, sexual repression, and injustice. This groundbreaking collection, one of only two mainstream publications Joans produced, perfectly captures the pulse of the Beat Generation and the rhythms of blues.
Author: Ted Joans
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780809030392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gordon E. Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1317173929
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that range from the spirituals to contemporary jazz. The poetry of familiar figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and less well-known poets like Harryette Mullen or the lyricist to Pharaoh Sanders, Amos Leon Thomas, is scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous with the lifetime of each poet. Black music is considered the strongest representation of black American communal consciousness; and black poetry, by drawing upon such a musical legacy, lays claim to a powerful and enduring black aesthetic. The contributors to this volume take on issues of black cultural authenticity, of musical imitation, and of poetic performance as displayed in the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Nathaniel Mackey, Jayne Cortez, Harryette Mullen, and Amos Leon Thomas. Taken together, these essays offer a rich examination of the breath of black poetry and the ties it has to the rhythms and forms of black music and the influence of black music on black poetic practice.
Author: Ted Joans
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roswitha Mayer
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2016-07-12
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 366825737X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (American Studies Department), course: American Modernism, language: English, abstract: How did Langston Hughes shape music into poetry, what were the items of his jazz poetry and what message did he want to mediate? Concerning the items and message of jazz poetry, secondary literature offers no help. Reading Hughes' jazz poems and combining it with the status of jazz music and Hughes' view of art, the following assumptions are plausible: Hughes’ jazz poetry tries with literary devices to imitate jazz music. This poetry reflects to reflect modern, urban black poplar culture. His poems transmit a new black self- confidence. The aim of this paper is to give reasons for those assumptions by analyzing a jazz poem closely. The poem that is to be analyzed is called „Railroad Avenue“ and was published first in 1926.
Author: James de Jongh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-11-30
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0521326206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book concentrates on the aesthetic and cultural force of Harlem, which inspired writers from Sherwood Anderson to Tom Wolfe.
Author: Ted Joans
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780714525242
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