This book offers reflections on the relationships between black
American intellectuals and African American musical traditions from
blues to hip hop.These learned but engagingly personal essays by
the late poet and critic Lorenzo Thomas explore the
interrelationships among African American music, literature, and
popular culture, from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Thomas
(1944-2005) was an important American poet and a leading literary
figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. His own work was
profoundly influenced by black musical forms, providing a unique
historical and aesthetic perspective that sets this book apart from
other books that examine black music.""Don't Deny My Name"" (which
takes its title from a blues song) begins by laying out the case
for the blues as constituting a body of literature, one that
confronts the situation of African American migrants to the urban
North and newer territories to the West. The essays that follow
collectively provide a tour of the movement through classic jazz,
bop, and the explosions of the free jazz era, followed by a section
on R&B and Soul. The collection ends with a polemical essay
about the hip hop phenomenon.
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