Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity

by James Smethurst

Book Overview

Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States. While Baraka's political and aesthetic stances changed considerably over the course of his career, Brick City Vanguard demonstrates the continuity in his thinking about the meaning of black music in the material, psychic, and ideological development of black...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625345151
• ISBN13: 9781625345158
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"