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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.
Leroy Jones (American football) (1950–2021), ... Leroi Jones or Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism
Baraka's stage play was made into a film in 1967, starring Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr. Dutchman was the last play produced by Baraka under his birth name, LeRoi Jones. At the time, he was in the process of divorcing his Jewish wife, Hettie Jones, embracing Black nationalism, and after lamenting the death of Malcolm X in 1965.
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]
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 beginnings of the Black Arts Movement may be traced to 1965, when Amiri Baraka, at that time still known as Leroi Jones, moved uptown to establish the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School (BARTS) following the assassination of Malcolm X. [18] Rooted in the Nation of Islam, the Black Power movement and the Civil Rights Movement, the Black ...
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 ...