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Anthony Reed takes the recorded collaborations between African American poets and musicians such as Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Cecil Taylor, and Charles Mingus to trace the overlaps between experimental music and poetry and the ways in which intellectuals, poets, and musicians define black sound as a radical aesthetic practice.
List of contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Black Sonic: Textuality 1
1. Voice Prints: Toward a Black Media Concept 23
2. Communities in Transition: A Poetics of Black Communism 61
3. Tomorrow is the Question! Amiri Baraka's Poetics for a Post-Revolutionary Age 103
4. Body/Language: The Semiotics and Poetics of Improvisation and Black Embodiment 143
Coda. No Simple Explanations 181
Notes 195
Bibliography 235
Index 251
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Anthony Reed
Summary
Anthony Reed takes the recorded collaborations between African American poets and musicians such as Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Cecil Taylor, and Charles Mingus to trace the overlaps between experimental music and poetry and the ways in which intellectuals, poets, and musicians define black sound as a radical aesthetic practice.
