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Black Musica collection of essays by Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones *With a new introduction by the author and Q&A by Calvin Reid Music/History | Trade Paperback
Also available from the AkashiClassics Renegade Reprint Series: Home: Social Essays by LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Click here for events featuring Amiri Baraka.
Click here for Tales of the Out & the Gone, a collection of short stories by Amiri Baraka.
The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka's seminal work, BLUES PEOPLE, and latest selection in the AkashiClassics Renegade Reprint Series. "Jones has learned--and this has been very rare in jazz criticism--to write about music as an artist." "In his prose as in his poetry, Baraka is at his best a lyrical prophet of despair who transfigures his contentious racial and political views into a transcendent, 'outtelligent' clarity." In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of America's literary consciousness with the short story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone. Now, this reissue of Black Music--long out of print--features a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of essays on jazz criticism, the creative process, and the development of a new way forward for black artists. Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. This rich and vital collection is comprised of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959-1967. LEROI JONES (now known as AMIRI BARAKA) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey by the New Jersey Commission on Humanities, from 2002-2004. His recent short story collection, Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic, 2007), was a New York Times Editors' Choice and won a 2008 PEN Beyond Margins Award. He lives in Newark, New Jersey. |
