The sum total of three hundred years of contained fury, these four plays are powerful statements about the real meaning of white oppression of black people. in their militancy and anger, they perfectly express the mood and frustrations of black America.

In this essential and impassioned text, LeRoi Jones traces the intertwined development of blues and jazz music with the history of its creators in 'White America'. As important and relevant as at its first publication in 1963, it shows how music and its people are inseparable - expressing and reflecting the other, surviving and adapting through oppression.

"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music."

So says Amiri Baraka in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960's, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls "negro music" on white America -- not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. In tracing the music, he brilliantly illuminates the influence of African Americans on American culture and history.

"Jones has learned--and this has been very rare in jazz criticism--to write about music as an artist."--Nat Hentoff ks
"Black Music" is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. It is composed of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959-1967. Also includes Amiri Baraka's reflections in a 2009 interview with Calvin Reid of "Publishers Weekly."
LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey from 2002 to 2004 by the New Jersey Commission on Humanities. His most recent book, "Tales of the Out & the Gone" (Akashic Books, 2007), was a "New York Times" Editors' Choice and winner of a PEN/Beyond Margins Award. He lives in Newark, New Jersey.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.

1909. This is designed as a textbook and aims to present an outline of scientific study as briefly and as concretely as possible. Contents: First Stages in Knowledge; Classification; The Use and Misuse of Words; Propositions; Induction; Verification and Deduction; The Syllogism; Traditional Treatment of the Syllogism; Abbreviated and Complex Forms of Reasoning-Hypothetical and Disjunctive Syllogisms; Proof and Disproof, Failure to Prove; Statistics; Averages; Probability; The Construction of Systems; Explanation; Hypothesis; and Typical Systems of Knowledge.

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1898. Columbia University contributions to philosophy, psychology and education, Vol. II, No. 4. Contents: William Brattle; Benjamin Franklin; Cadwallader Colden; Thomas Clap; Samuel Johnson, life and eduction, psychology, mind and cause, external reality, ethics, Johnson as an educator; Jonathan Edwards, life and education, psychology, idealism, ethical system, doctrine of the will; conclusion.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

1909. This is designed as a textbook and aims to present an outline of scientific study as briefly and as concretely as possible. Contents: First Stages in Knowledge; Classification; The Use and Misuse of Words; Propositions; Induction; Verification and Deduction; The Syllogism; Traditional Treatment of the Syllogism; Abbreviated and Complex Forms of Reasoning-Hypothetical and Disjunctive Syllogisms; Proof and Disproof, Failure to Prove; Statistics; Averages; Probability; The Construction of Systems; Explanation; Hypothesis; and Typical Systems of Knowledge.