Afro-blue
improvisations in African American poetry and culture
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Author
Publication
2004 - University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
43,250 words, Guess
Page Count
173 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3672949M
- ISBN-100252028740
- OCLC Control Number51817422
- Library of Congress Control Number2003004991
- Goodreads2712820
Classifications
- DDC811.009/896073
- LCCPS310.N4 B65 2004
Description
"In Afro-Blue Tony Bolden traces the ways innovations in black music and poetry have driven the evolution of a variety of another American vernacular artistic forms. The blues tradition, Bolden demonstrates, plays a key role in the relationship between poetry and vernacular expressive forms."--Jacket.
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