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Jazz Poems
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Kevin Young
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Everyman's Library

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A vital and surprising hardcover collection of poems about, and inspired by, jazz music. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Selected and Edited by Kevin Young.
Some Jazz a While
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Miller Williams
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Here one of our best-loved poets gathers his most representative work from twelve collections and adds some new pieces as well. An American original, Miller Wil
Black Pow-Wow
Language: en
Pages: 146
Authors: Ted Joans
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1969 - Publisher: Macmillan

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"Jazz is my religion, and surrealism is my point of view." Ted Joans was one of the first Beat poets in the Greenwich Village arts scene, pioneering a movement
Jazz Griots
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-27 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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This study is about how four representative African American poets in the 1960s, Langston Hughes, Umbra’s David Henderson, and the Black Arts Movement’s Son
The Muse is Music
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Meta DuEwa Jones
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken wor