Black music, Black poetry : blues and jazz's impact on African American versification
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 are scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous with the lifetime of each poet
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xvi, 205 pages) : illustrations
9781315569475, 9781317173908, 9781317173915, 9781317173922, 1315569477, 1317173902, 1317173910, 1317173929
950471346
Print version:
pt. 1. Authenticity in Black music and poetry
pt. 2. Jazz : its spiritual lyricism
pt. 3. Lyricism and the sonic aesthetic
pt. 4. Transformational lyricism
"First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--Title page verso