Soundworks
Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production
1st Edition
Published on 23. November 2020
280 pages
978-1-4780-1279-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Anthony Reed is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and author of Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing.
Content
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
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
