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Title: Black Music by Leroi Jones, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Amiri Baraka ISBN: 0-306-80814-5 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Politics and Art
Comment: Too often, Baraka is critiqued for his artistry or his politics alone--with Black Music, the floor gets opened to anyone or everyone with an opinion on jazz or blues music. Black Music is Baraka's smart, personally charged account of the forms and culture inherent to black music, and thus its political value as a testament to a nation within a nation. Reading Baraka's intimate thoughts on such a personal subject should be the sole impetus for the reader.
Rating: 3
Summary: OK but why all the hype?
Comment: After hearing Leroi Jones on Sunny Murray and the NYAQ's records, and reading little excerpts of some of his reviews in books on free jazz, I thought I'd pick this up and check it out. I did; it was OK; but not much more than OK. I felt like most of the information available here is readily found elsewhere, and that any new perspective he brings to the issues (meaning basically a black nationalist/radical one) is easily enough visible in other places--better to read Fanon or Malcolm X than to let that music play in the background in a jazz book like this one. If that's your taste you might be better off with John Szwed's book on Sun Ra. This book is OK though, and if you haven't already read a number of jazz books you might find it fresh and interesting--I simply didn't. Well written though.
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Title: Blues People : Negro Music in White America by Leroi Jones ISBN: 068818474X Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 03 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Jazz Cadence of American Culture by Robert G. O'Meally ISBN: 0231104499 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Jazz Cultures by David Andrew Ake ISBN: 0520228898 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 07 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History by Scott Deveaux ISBN: 0520216652 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists (Music of the African Diaspora) by Eric Porter ISBN: 0520232968 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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