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New Music New Poetry by Amiri Baraka released in 1982. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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New York, New York 10013. A reading by AMIRI BARAKA of his poetry with DAVID MURRAY on tenor sax and bass clarinet and STEVE McCALL on drums. Recorded in performance at Soundscape in New York City at a program produced by Verna Gillis.
In the liner notes to Amiri Baraka/s LP "New Music - New Poetry," Baraka calls poetry "a music form . . . speech musicked," observing that "the poetry of the dying epoch (racism and monopoly capitalism,
Jazz album: “New Music - New Poetry” by Amiri Baraka, released in 1982 on Black Forum. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz
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Poet, writer, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University and Howard University, spent three years in the U.S. Air Force, and returned to New York City to attend Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. Baraka was well known for his stride...
Barakas own political stance changed several times, thus dividing his oeuvre into periods: as a member of the avant-garde during the 1950s, Barakawriting as Leroi Joneswas associated with Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; in the 60s, he moved to Harlem and became a Black Nationalist; in the 70s, he was involved in third-world libera...
Baraka incited controversy throughout his career. He was praised for speaking out against oppression as well as accused of fostering hate. Critical opinion has been sharply divided between those who agree, with Dissent contributor Stanley Kaufman, that Barakas race and political moment have created his celebrity, and those who feel that Baraka stan...
Baraka did not always identify with radical politics, nor did his writing always court controversy. During the 1950s Baraka lived in Greenwich Village, befriending Beat poets Allen Ginsberg, Frank OHara, and Gilbert Sorrentino. The white avant-gardeprimarily Ginsberg, OHara, and leader of the Black Mountain poets Charles Olsonand Baraka believed in...
Dutchman, a play of entrapment in which a white woman and a middle-class black man both express their murderous hatred on a subway, was first performed Off-Broadway in 1964. While other dramatists of the time were wedded to naturalism, Baraka used symbolism and other experimental techniques to enhance the plays emotional impact. The play establishe...
After Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was killed in 1965, Baraka moved to Harlem and founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School. The Black Arts Movement helped develop a new aesthetic for black art and Baraka was its primary theorist. Black American artists should follow black, not white standards of beauty and value, he maintained, and should s...
By the early 1970s Baraka was recognized as an influential African-American writer. Randall noted in Black World that younger black poets Nikki Giovanni and Don L. Lee (later Haki R. Madhubuti) were learning from LeRoi Jones, a man versed in German philosophy, conscious of literary tradition . . . who uses the structure of Dantes Divine Comedy in h...
After coming to see Black Nationalism as a destructive form of racism, Baraka denounced it in 1974 and became a third world socialist. He produced a number of Marxist poetry collections and plays in the 1970s that reflected his newly adopted political goals. Critics contended that works like the essays collected in Daggers and Javelins (1984) lack ...
Baraka was recognized for his work through a PEN/Faulkner Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, and the Langston Hughes Award from City College of New York. He was awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He died in 2014.
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Baraka's career spanned nearly 52 years, and his themes range from Black liberation to White racism. His notable poems include "The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues", "The Book of Monk", and "New Music, New Poetry", works that draw on topics from the worlds of society, music, and literature.
