Black Chant traces the embrace and transformation of black modernisms and postmodernisms by African-American poets in the decades after the Second World War. Centering on groups of avant-garde poets, the study particularly attends to those poets whose radical forms of new writing formed the basis for much of what followed in the Black Arts period. Exploring the farthest reaches of black creative experimentation in words and music, Black Chant yields an invaluable reassessment of African-American cultural history as it has been shaped throughout the era we now call postmodern.
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"Aldon Nielsen's Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism provides a fine combination of advocacy and intense, careful research. ...Nielsen's book should serve as an important polemical warning and as equally important evidence for the significant bodies of poetry that are being neglected today." Contemporary Literature
"...the first major book to present a compelling argument fokr a black postmodernist poetics, one that will surely gain prominence..." John Grey, American Literature
"WIthout doubt, Nielsen's study has to be considered a significant re-mapping of the history of African-American poetry in the context of music and performance." Wilfried Raussert, American Studies
"...the author offers contemporary readers and students alike a grand opportunity to capture in one book, a profound examination of modern currents in black poetry in America." Julie E. Thompsom, American Studies
"...the first major book to present a compelling argument fokr a black postmodernist poetics, one that will surely gain prominence..." John Grey, American Literature
"WIthout doubt, Nielsen's study has to be considered a significant re-mapping of the history of African-American poetry in the context of music and performance." Wilfried Raussert, American Studies
"...the author offers contemporary readers and students alike a grand opportunity to capture in one book, a profound examination of modern currents in black poetry in America." Julie E. Thompsom, American Studies
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Centering on avant-garde poets, this study traces the embrace and transformation of black modernism and postmodernisms by African-American poets in the decades after the Second World War. It particularly attends to poets whose radical forms of new writing formed the basis for the Black Arts period.
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During the decade since I departed from Howard University to take up a tenure track position teaching English in California, I have often found myself, in widely different parts of the United States, listening to academics at predominantly white institutions discuss a topic they term "Black English." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black postmodernity, black dada nihilismus, jazz texts, silent gong, black chant, new black poetry, black poetics, black verse, small percussion instruments, discrepant engagement, black poets, surreal imagery, projective verse, black speech, black writing, black aesthetic, black music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Free Lance, African American, Cecil Taylor, David Henderson, Amiri Baraka, Floating Bear, World War, Langston Hughes, Russell Atkins, Harlem Renaissance, Elouise Loftin, New Black Music, Ornette Coleman, Sterling Brown, Society of Umbra, William Carlos Williams, Lorenzo Thomas, San Francisco, Stephen Henderson, Archie Shepp, Howard University, Jayne Cortez, Marion Brown, Miles Davis, Percy Johnston New!
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During the decade since I departed from Howard University to take up a tenure track position teaching English in California, I have often found myself, in widely different parts of the United States, listening to academics at predominantly white institutions discuss a topic they term "Black English." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black postmodernity, black dada nihilismus, jazz texts, silent gong, black chant, new black poetry, black poetics, black verse, small percussion instruments, discrepant engagement, black poets, surreal imagery, projective verse, black speech, black writing, black aesthetic, black music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Free Lance, African American, Cecil Taylor, David Henderson, Amiri Baraka, Floating Bear, World War, Langston Hughes, Russell Atkins, Harlem Renaissance, Elouise Loftin, New Black Music, Ornette Coleman, Sterling Brown, Society of Umbra, William Carlos Williams, Lorenzo Thomas, San Francisco, Stephen Henderson, Archie Shepp, Howard University, Jayne Cortez, Marion Brown, Miles Davis, Percy Johnston New!
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- Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing by Imamu Amiri Baraka on 4 pages
- Black Fire : An Anthology of Afro-American Writing by Larry Neal on 4 pages
- The New Black Poetry by Clarence Major on 4 pages
- Black Anima (A Liveright new writer) by N. Loftis on 4 pages
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- Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism by Kimberley W. Benston in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- NOTES TO MAKE THE SOUND COME RIGHT: FOUR INNOVATIONS OF JAZZ POETRY: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry by T.J. ANDERSON III in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry by Joanne V. Gabbin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism by Kimberley W. Benston in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Henry James' Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Beverly Haviland in Front Matter
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