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...Mixing rhyme and spoken word, she adds hip-hop relevance to the poetic tradition of Amiri Baraka and Langston Hughes....
...The music is clearly rooted in the 1960s — the sleeve note quote, “Black music is this: find the self then kill it”, is taken from the late poet Amiri Baraka’s notes for the 1965 Impulse!...
...“The whole musical persona of Pharoah Sanders,” wrote the African-American poet and critic Amiri Baraka, “is of a consciousness in conscious search of a higher consciousness.”...
...Before he changed his name to Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones was the epitome of Black Ivy cool....
...More indirectly, it echoes the poet Amiri Baraka’s revolutionary battle cry, “Up against the wall mother fucker this is a stickup.”...
...Having studied directing at London’s Rose Bruford drama school, she directed Dutchman by Amiri Baraka at London’s Young Vic in 2016....
...The most obvious forbear is the work of poet Amiri Baraka with the New York Art Quartet — the track “Black Dada Nihilismus” from that band’s self-titled ESP recording captures the style....
...Iyer’s broad emotional palette varies from the stirring anthemic title track and the rough and tumble chases of “Down to the Wire” to “Nope’s” laid-back hip-hop and the solemn acoustic trio “For Amiri Baraka...
...The affectionate trio piece that followed, “For Amiri Baraka”, acted as something of an interlude, as, when the band returned, it was to deliver another extended four-song segue....
...Along with photographs of “The Wall of Respect” in South Side Chicago is a surviving fragment of one of its black heroes: the poet Amiri Baraka....
...I spent the day after my visit in a Google haze, reading up on the African context for slavery, Dubois’ smackdown with Booker T Washington, and the controversial legacy of the poet Amiri Baraka....
...Through Maya I found James Baldwin and Langston Hughes and Linton Kwesi Johnson and Amiri Baraka....
...Inspiration came from Amiri Baraka, the radical poet. A sweater read “The Black Genius”, a quote from one of his works....
...Dutchman, playwright Amiri Baraka’s political allegory of race relations, shocked viewers when initially performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village in 1964; it provoked outrage when re-conceived...
...Fly even tries to re-educate middle-class drones and callous chief executives by kidnapping and force-feeding them Amiri Baraka, Heinrich Böll and (in a particularly sadistic moment) Finnegans Wake....
...The mysteries of sleep get a look in, but the keynote tracks reference hopes and hopes reigned in – Amiri Baraka’s low-key rap “Yes We Can” more resigned than angry....
...New Jersey abolished its post of poet laureate after the occupant, Amiri Baraka, wrote a poem about September 11 that included the line: “Who told 4,000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers to stay home that...
...The question posed by the off-Broadway revival of Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman is not whether the play deserves a place in the canon (it does) but whether it retains its ability to detonate thought about American...
...It’s easily fitted into the thesis expounded by LeRoi Jones (the pioneer beat poet, later self-renamed Amiri Baraka) in his 1963 book Blues People: Negro Music in White America....
...But any shred of consensus was soon swept aside by the extraordinarily vindictive polemics of Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Frank Kofsky’s black nationalist separatism and their championing of free jazz...
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