Black Music, Black Poetry: Blues And Jazz's Impact On African American Versification

Linking a diverse body of writing to a black musical tradition, Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. The contributors take up the issues of black cultural authenticity, musical imitation and performance, and the influence of black music on poetic practice as they relate familiar figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and lesser known writers like James Emanuel.

• • Author: Gordon E. Thompson
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: May 22, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 222 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1409428362
• • ISBN-13: 9781409428367