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Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, [1] was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism.
Blues People: Negro Music in White America is a seminal study of Afro-American music (and culture generally) by Amiri Baraka, who published it as LeRoi Jones in 1963. [1] In Blues People Baraka explores the possibility that the history of black Americans can be traced through the evolution of their music.
Dutchman is a play written by playwright Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones. [1] Dutchman was first presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, New York City, in March 1964 co-produced by Rita Fredricks. The play won an Obie Award; it shared this distinction with Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro. [2]
The New Wave in Jazz is a live album recorded on March 28, 1965, at the Village Gate in New York City.It features groups led by major avant-garde jazz artists performing at a concert for the benefit of The Black Arts Repertory Theater/School founded by Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones. [2]
"Black Art" is a poem written by African-American poet Amiri Baraka. It was written in 1965 after the assassination of Malcolm X while still known as LeRoi Jones. The poem issued a clarion call for art by and for Black people:
Leroi Jones or Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.
The System of Dante's Hell is a short novel by African-American writer LeRoi Jones, [1] published in 1965 by Grove Press.The novel follows a young black man living nomadically in big cities and small towns in the Southern United States, and his struggles with segregation and racism.
The Cricket, subtitled "Black Music in Evolution", was a magazine created in 1968 by Amiri Baraka (then known as LeRoi Jones), Larry Neal and A. B. Spellman. [1] Baraka has said: "Larry Neal, AB and I realized the historical influence of music on African /Afro American Culture. I saw the magazine as a necessary dispenser of this influence as ...