Jazz griots : music as history in the 1960s African American poem / Jean-Philippe Marcoux.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-216) and index.

The sound of grammar : blues and jazz as meta-languages of storytelling in Langston Hughes's Ask your mama -- Move on up : free jazz and rhythm and blues -- Performativities as creative acts of cultural -- Re-inscription in David Henderson's De mayor of Harlem -- Sister in the struggle : jazz linguistics and the feminized -- Quest for a communicative 'sound' in Sonia Sanchez's -- Home coming and we a baddDDD people -- Birth of a free jazz nation : Amiri Baraka's jazz : historiography from black magic to Wise, why's, y's.

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<Span><span><span>To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hypotheses about </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">how </span><span>Black poets transcribe jazz into the poetic format, this book, while providing a different approach to reading jazz poetry, attempts to answer the question, </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">why </span><span>do Black poets revert to jazz for poetic material. This book's answer is because jazz is Black History ritualized and performed, and jazz performance is storytelling.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span></span>

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