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Contents: Foreword Introduction: lyrical aesthetics in African American poetry, Gordon E. Thompson. Part I Authenticity in Black Music and Poetry: 'Original rags': African American secular music and the cultural legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry, Ray Sapirstein Paul Laurence Dunbar and the spirituals, Lauri Ramey 'Greatest is the song': blues as poetic communication in early Langston Hughes and Sterling A. Brown, John Edgar Tidwell 'A real, solid, sane, racial something': Langston Hughes's blues poetry, David Chinitz. Part II Jazz: Its Spiritual Lyricism: The funk aesthetic in African American poetry, Tony Bolden 'Go in the wilderness': the missionary impulse of Michael Harper's poetry, Joseph A. Brown. Part III Lyricism and the Sonic Aesthetic: Amiri Baraka: phenomenologist of jazz spirit, Christopher Winks Nathaniel Mackey's 'Song of the Andoumboulou': making different music, Scarlett Higgins Hearing a new musical instrument: Harryette Mullen's critical lyricism, Lisa Mansell. Part IV Transformational Lyricism: 'Taking it out!': Jayne Cortez's collaborations with the Firespitters, Renee M. Kingan Pops, pygmies, and Pentecostal fire: Sanders and Thomas's 'The Creator has a Master Plan', Michael Coyle References Index. |
