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<p>Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that range from the spirituals to contemporary jazz. The poetry of familiar figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and less well-known poets like Harryette Mullen or the lyricist to Pharaoh Sanders, Amos Leon Thomas, is scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous wit

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Author

Thompson, Gordon E.(Editor)

Publisher

Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781409428367

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25