Soundworks : race, sound, and poetry in production /
"Soundworks takes the many recorded collaborations between African American poets and musicians associated with the long Black Arts era (late-1950s through mid-1970s) as the occasion to reframe the object of black sound studies as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological for...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Refiguring American music.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "Soundworks takes the many recorded collaborations between African American poets and musicians associated with the long Black Arts era (late-1950s through mid-1970s) as the occasion to reframe the object of black sound studies as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological forces. Through new interpretations of Langston Hughes, Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka, and the disparate experimental modes of "free jazz" practiced by Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, Jeanne Lee, and Jayne Cortez, Soundworks recovers the visionary world-making impulses encoded in the poetics of experimental practice and the alternative forms of communal and individual being to which those practices correspond"-- |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478090625 1478090626 9781478012795 147801279X |
