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Jazz Poems

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Poems written by Kevin Young and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital and surprising hardcover collection of poems about, and inspired by, jazz music. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Selected and Edited by Kevin Young. Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them. From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force—one that Jazz Poems makes palpable. We hear it in the poems of Langston Hughes, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Frank O’Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks, and in those of Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Simic, Rita Dove, Ntozake Shange, Mark Doty, William Matthews, and C. D. Wright. Here are poems that pay tribute to jazz’s great voices, and poems that throb with the vivid rhythm and energy of the jazz tradition, ranging in tone from mournful elegy to sheer celebration. Includes: • “Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret” by Langston Hughes • “God Bless the Child” by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. • “Jazz Fantasia” by Carl Sandburg • “Ol’ Bunk’s Band” by William Carlos Williams • “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks • “Chasing the Bird” by Robert Creeley • “Victrola” by Robert Pinsky • “Pres Spoke in a Language” by Amiri Baraka • “The Day Lady Died” by Frank O’Hara • “Art Pepper” by Edward Hirsch • “Snow” by Billy Collins Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

Jazz Griots

Author : Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739166743
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Griots written by Jean-Philippe Marcoux and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is about how four representative African American poets in the 1960s, Langston Hughes, Umbra’s David Henderson, and the Black Arts Movement’s Sonia Sanchez, and Amiri Baraka engage, in the tradition of African griots, in poetic dialogues with aesthetics, music, politics, and Black History, and in so doing narrate, using jazz as meta-language, genealogies, etymologies, cultural legacies, and Black (hi)stories. In intersecting and complementary ways, Hughes, Henderson, Sanchez, and Baraka fashioned their griotism from theorizations of artistry as political engagement, and, in turn, formulated a Black aesthetic based on jazz performativity –a series of jazz-infused iterations that form a complex pattern of literary, musical, historical, and political moments in constant cross-fertilizing dialogues with one another. This form of poetic call-and-response is essential for it allows the possibility of intergenerational dialogues between poets and musicians as well as dialogical potential between song and politics, between Africa and Black America, within the poems. More importantly, these jazz dialogisms underline the construction of the Black Aesthetic as conceptualized respectively by the griotism of Hughes, of Henderson, and of Sanchez and Baraka.

Some Jazz a While

Author : Miller Williams
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067747
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Some Jazz a While written by Miller Williams and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here one of our best-loved poets gathers his most representative work from twelve collections and adds some new pieces as well. An American original, Miller Williams involves the readers emotions and imagination with an effective illusion of plain talk, continually rediscovering what is vital and musical in the language we speak and imagine by.

Moment's Notice

Author : Art Lange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566890014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Moment's Notice written by Art Lange and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors have collected the jazz-inspired works of close to sixty writers ranging from Julio Cortazar and Jessica Hagedorn to Langston Hughes and Ishmael Reed."Moment's Notice is the best anthology of jazz literature I've ever seen."--Bart Schneider,Hungry Mind Review ¶"The jazz anthology to end all jazz anthologies."--Booklist

Black Pow-Wow

Author : Ted Joans
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809000938
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Black Pow-Wow written by Ted Joans and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1969 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jazz is my religion, and surrealism is my point of view." Ted Joans was one of the first Beat poets in the Greenwich Village arts scene, pioneering a movement that often overlooked his profound contributions. His poetry mixes the rhythms of jazz music with “hand grenades” of truth, and his live reading performance style anticipated the spoken word movement. Black Pow-Wow is a collection of the best of Joans’ early poetry, including such well-known poems as “Jazz Is My Religion,” “Passed On Blues: Homage to a Poet,” and “The Nice Colored Man.” Many of his poems speak to his friends and contemporaries--including Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Salvador Dali, Andre Breton, and particularly Langston Hughes--as well as his extensive travels across the African continent and around the world. His avante-garde poems also reflect his style as a painter and collage artist, call for social protest, and denounce racism, sexual repression, and injustice. This groundbreaking collection, one of only two mainstream publications Joans produced, perfectly captures the pulse of the Beat Generation and the rhythms of blues.

Inca Blues

Author : Michael Sisson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963330802
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Inca Blues written by Michael Sisson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Langston Hughes

Author : Charlotte Etinde-Crompton
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1978504152
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book Langston Hughes written by Charlotte Etinde-Crompton and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce your readers to a stellar talent. There is no question that Langston Hughes was one of the brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance. A true pioneer, Hughes was one of the first poets to draw on the syncopated rhythms of jazz and black urban dialect for his work, and it proved transformative for American poetry. With a looser lyrical style reminiscent of Walt Whitman, Hughes used his art to portraying the experiences, concerns, and consolations of black men and women. As a poet, playwright, and novelist, he was impressively prolific, leaving behind a body of work truly worthy of study and celebration.

Jazz Age Poet

Author : Veda Boyd Jones
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 0822563460
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Age Poet written by Veda Boyd Jones and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of such poems as I, To; Sing America; and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes combined his experiences and emotions with the rhythms and themes he found in jazz music to create an exciting new style of poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Hughes won many awards and honors for his various books of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, children’s books, autobiographies, and magazine articles. Despite always struggling to succeed financially, Hughes never gave up trying to be a better writer, and a better man.

Jazz Poetry

Author : Sascha Feinstein
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Poetry written by Sascha Feinstein and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-03-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing the entire history of jazz poetry, the work defines this inspired literary genre as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music. It discusses the major figures and various movements from the racist poems of the 1920s to contemporary times when the tone of jazz poetry experienced a dramatic change from elegy to celebration. The jazz music of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane transliterated into poetry by the likes of Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown is but a part of this vital work. This unusual volume will be of interest to scholars and students of literature, music, American and African Studies, and popular culture as well as anyone who enjoys jazz and poetry. Emphasis is given to a call and response between white and African American writers. The earliest jazz poems by white writers from the 1920s, for example, reflected the general anxieties evoked by jazz, particularly regarding race and sexuality, and jazz did not fully become embraced in American verse until Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown published their first books in 1926 and 1932, respectively. By the 1950s, jazz poetry had become a fad, featuring jazz and poetry in performance, and this book spends considerable time addressing the energetic but often wildly unsuccessful work by dominantly white, West coast writers who turned to Charlie Parker as their hero. African American poets from the 1960s, however, focused more on John Coltrane and interpreted his music as a representation of the Black Civil Rights movement. Jazz poetry from the 1970s to the present has had less to do with this call and response between races, and the final two chapters discuss contemporary jazz poetry in terms of its dramatic change in tone from elegy to joy.

First Book Of Jazz

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780880015523
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book First Book Of Jazz written by Langston Hughes and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1997-09-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to jazz which focuses on its historical development.

Jazz Fan Looks Back

Author : Jayne Cortez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Fan Looks Back written by Jayne Cortez and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jayne Cortez understands better than most how to make spoken words swing and rock. --Gene Seymour, Newsday.

Translating Jazz Into Poetry

Author : Erik Redling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110395282
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Translating Jazz Into Poetry written by Erik Redling and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study develops a new theoretical approach to the relationship between two media (jazz music and writing) and demonstrates its explanatory power with the help of a rich sampling of jazz poems. Currently, the mimetic approach to intermediality (e.g., the notion that jazz poetry imitates jazz music) still dominates the field of criticism. This book challenges that interpretive approach. It demonstrates that a mimetic view of jazz poetry hinders readers from perceiving the metaphoric ways poets rendered music in writing. Drawing on and extending recent cognitive metaphor theories (Lakoff, Johnson, Turner, Fauconnier), it promotes a conceptual metaphor model that allows readers to discover the innovative ways poets translate “melody,” “dynamics,” “tempo,” “mood,” and other musical elements into literal and figurative expressions that invite readers to imagine the music in their mind’s eye (i.e., their mind’s ear).

The Weary Blues

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486850560
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Weary Blues written by Langston Hughes and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From "The Weary Blues" to "Dream Variation," Hughes writes clearly and colorfully, and his words remain prophetic.

Black Music, Black Poetry

Author : Professor Gordon E Thompson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472430603
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Black Music, Black Poetry written by Professor Gordon E Thompson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, is scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous with the lifetime of each poet. Black music is considered the strongest representation of black American communal consciousness; and black poetry, by drawing upon such a musical legacy, lays claim to a powerful and enduring black aesthetic. The contributors to this volume take on issues of black cultural authenticity, of musical imitation, and of poetic performance as displayed in the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Nathaniel Mackey, Jayne Cortez, Harryette Mullen, and Amos Leon Thomas. Taken together, these essays offer a rich examination of the breath of black poetry and the ties it has to the rhythms and forms of black music and the influence of black music on black poetic practice.

Ruth Weiss

Author : Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo
Publisher : ISSN
ISBN 13 : 9783111262185
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Ruth Weiss written by Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo and published by ISSN. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ruth weiss: Beat Poetry, Jazz, Art offers critical analyses on the so-called "Goddess of the Beat Generation". In keeping with weiss's multifaceted artistic drive, this volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to bring together studies on a

Jazz

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1430130202
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Jazz written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exuberant music, powerful narration, and image-filled poetry combine to create this extraordinary recording, winner of ALA's first Odyssey Award for excellence in audiobook production." The Horn Book

Jazz A-B-Z

Author : Wynton Marsalis
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 9780763621353
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Jazz A-B-Z written by Wynton Marsalis and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles twenty-six of the jazz greats of all time, from Count Basie to Louis Armstrong, through a review of their work, their life stories, and their greatest hits by one of today's top jazz performers. A is for "almighty" Louis Armstrong, whose amazingartistry unfolds in an accumulative poem shaped like the letter he stands for. As for sax master Sonny Rollins, whose "robust style radiates roundness," could there be a better tribute than a poetic rondeau? In an extraordinary feat, Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer Wynton Marsalis harmonizes his love and knowledge of jazz's most celebrated artists with an astounding diversity of poetic forms-from simple blues (Count Basie) to a complex pantoum (Charlie Parker), from a tender sonnet (Sarah Vaughan) to a performance poem snapping the rhythms of Art Blakey to life.