An examination of the evolution and philosophy of African American music (view table of contents)

Portrays a black man's early life in Northern slums and a small Southern town, as he struggles within the white structures of Dante's hell

Seventy Negro authors of the Black Power generation express their frustrations and feelings in this collection of poetry, fiction and drama

An abandoned fierce pride in the fact of being black underlies these four one-act plays which portray, in explosive, hard-hitting language, LeRoi's conception of the black experience

A novel, sixteen short stories, brief lyrics, and long, major poems evoke Baraka's agony and hostility due to the injustices against his people

Product Description: drama

A collection of poems, some recent and some previously out-of-print, includes Malcolm Remembered (Feb. '77), 3rd World Blues, Nixon, Civil Rights Poem, Young Soul, and Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

Product Description: UNREAD, crisp, fresh, copy. Tight uncreased spine. All pages crisp, fresh, square, Clean square, edges and corners.Bright fresh wrappers. 14th printing 1978. Two minor chips on spine wrapper,( spine bottom chip 1/4" , spine top 1/8"). Otherwise copy is fresh, crisp, and new.

In the essay “Jazz and the White Critic” LeRoi Jones observes: “Most jazz critics have been white Americans, but most important jazz musicians have not been.” In Black Music , his perceptive and provocative collection of articles, reviews, profiles, interviews, liner notes, and new essays, Jones has offered a remedy of sorts. In brilliant discussions of Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Don Cherry, and Sun-Ra, he examines each musician's personality, background, musical ambitions, accomplishments, and disappointments, to illuminate both the context and spirit of jazz.

A collection of fiction, poems, essays, and short plays explores the life of Black women in American society

The changing ideas of the renowned playwright, poet, and author, also known as LeRoi Jones, are chronicled in a collection of essays

Product Description: Contains essays on Miles Davis, Pharaoh Sanders, Woody Shaw, Jay Hoggard, Bob Neloms, Cecil McBee, Craig Harris, Gil Scott Heron, Chico Freeman Dennis Moorman, and other contemporary musicians as well as reflections on soul, modern trends, and other aspects of the history of jazz and blues...read more

Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer

Product Description: A poetic voyage in five parts that charts the ebbs and flows of the African-American movement.

A collection of some of LeRoi Jones' most famous poems includes Civil Rights Poem, Young Soul, and Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

A collection of some of LeRoi Jones' most famous poems includes Civil Rights Poem, Young Soul, and Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

Product Description: Poetry. African-American studies. Reprint. For 200 years, the eulogy has been a vital, though rarely studied, form of African-American expression. Here Baraka gathers in a volume the eulogies he has spoken and written, in poetry and prose, over the last 30 years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This new book of previously uncollected poetry (1984-1995) demonstrates Baraka's gift for the music of thought, and reveals his continued mastery of tone and performance. Engaging in the primary issues of African-American music and contemporary politics, and imbuing his homages to such grand figures of America as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughn, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane with a passion that has not abated over the years, Baraka glories in his own virtuosity...read more

Product Description: A reassessment of Jesse Jackson's failed campaigns for President and the black vote in America.

A fuller version of the author's autobiography, without the cuts made by a previous publisher, details his life through 1974, and explains the development of his Black Nationalist views and his embrace of Islam and Marxism. (view table of contents)

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