A Hunger Called Music (A Verse History Of Black Music)

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Music. Borrowing from such sources as archival recordings and news stories, A HUNGER CALLED MUSIC documents the early history of African-American music beginning with work songs and ending with Motown- era soul. Using each genre's historical context and the music itself as inspiration, the poems in the chapbook take on a range of voices and stories from Robert Johnson to Nina Simone, and from a white 1950s record producer to a witness to police brutality. In doing so, the poems work to unearth the commonalities of experience between previous eras and the current one through the intergenerational constant of music.

• | Author: Meredith Nnoka
• | Publisher: C&R Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 15, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 32 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1936196786
• | ISBN-13: 9781936196784