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Books like Mingus Speaks come around once in a lifetime, and Music editor Mary Francis’s enthusiasm for the project is palpable. That’s why we asked her to introduce this episode of the UC Press Podcast, a discussion with writer and former music critic John Goodman, complete with music and archival clips from Mingus’s interviews. Take it away, Mary!
When I [more...]  Amiri Baraka, author of the American Book Award-winning Digging and over 40 other books of essays, poems, drama, and criticism, spoke with albuquerqueARTS magazine about conspiracy theories, the alchemy of poetry and music, and creating art in an imperialist context. On November 6, Baraka will collaborate with Cecil Taylor for the keynote performance of SHOUT-OUT: [more...] Jazz called to Nat Hentoff when he was 11 years old, and he heard Artie Shaw’s “Nightmare” wafting from a Boston storefront. At that moment, he writes in At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene, “jazz became a part of me. It still makes me shout aloud in pleasure, as [more...] On the surface, they may seem different—one is a book about American jazz, the other is about the relationship between romantic and experimental modern poetry—but Amiri Baraka’s Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music and Poems for the Millenium, Volume 3: The University of California Book of Romantic & Postromantic Poetry, edited by Jerome [more...] Amiri Baraka, author of Digging, was a finalist for the Lifetime Achievement Award in Jazz Journalism from the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA). At its thirteenth annual awards ceremony last week, the JJA recognized winners and nominees in 42 categories, from the best musicians and records of the year to photographers, writers, and more. Baraka was [more...] |
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