Baraka, Amiri 1934-2014
Overview
| Works: | 1,306 works in 3,186 publications in 7 languages and 96,731 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Drama Fiction Jazz Poetry Short stories Biography Biographies Essays Autobiographies |
| Roles: | Author, Interviewee, Narrator, Editor, Author of screenplay, Performer, Speaker, Other, Writer of accompanying material, Bibliographic antecedent, Actor, Costume designer, Dedicatee, Instrumentalist |
| Classifications: | PS3552.A583, 818.5409 |
Publication Timeline
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Most widely held works about
Amiri Baraka
- The autobiography of LeRoi Jones by Amiri Baraka( Book )
- The shadow and the act : black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism by Walton M Muyumba( )
- Native sons : a critical study of twentieth-century Negro American authors by Edward Margolies( Book )
- Heroism in the new Black poetry : introductions & interviews by D. H Melhem( Book )
- The Columbia history of American poetry by Jay Parini( Book )
- American poetry since 1945 : a critical survey by Stephen Stepanchev( Book )
- Five Black writers : essays on Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Hughes, and Le Roi Jones by Donald B Gibson( Book )
- Scars of conquest/masks of resistance : the invention of cultural identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean drama by Tejumola Olaniyan( )
- A nation within a nation : Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black power politics by Komozi Woodard( )
- On the corner : African American intellectuals and the urban crisis by Daniel Matlin( )
- Amiri Baraka by Lloyd W Brown( Book )
- The Black American writer by C. W. E Bigsby( Book )
- Contemporary poets by Harold Bloom( Book )
- From LeRoi Jones to Amiri Baraka: the literary works by Theodore R Hudson( Book )
- Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn : the collected letters by Claudia Moreno Pisano( )
- Amiri Baraka : the politics and art of a Black intellectual by Jerry Gafio Watts( Book )
- Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) : a collection of critical essays by Amiri Baraka( Book )
- Literary disruptions : the making of a post-contemporary American fiction by Jerome Klinkowitz( Book )
- Baraka : the renegade and the mask by Kimberly W Benston( Book )
- How I became Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Amiri Baraka
Blues people; Negro music in white America by
Amiri Baraka(
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107 editions published between 1963 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 2,918 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Examines the history of the Negro in America through the music he created
107 editions published between 1963 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 2,918 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Examines the history of the Negro in America through the music he created
Black music by
Amiri Baraka(
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81 editions published between 1967 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,545 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Discusses modern jazz movements and musicians, including Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, and Sun-Ra
81 editions published between 1967 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,545 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Discusses modern jazz movements and musicians, including Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, and Sun-Ra
Dutchman, and The slave : two plays by
Amiri Baraka(
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38 editions published between 1964 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Two short plays, dramatizations of the racial dilemma in America
38 editions published between 1964 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Two short plays, dramatizations of the racial dilemma in America
Digging : the Afro-American soul of American classical music by
Amiri Baraka(
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11 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 1,919 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Publisher description: For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times, and places he's encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous--Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane--and on those whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados--Alan Shorter, Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka's literary style, with its deep roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musician friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered. He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, providing us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging
11 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 1,919 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Publisher description: For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times, and places he's encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous--Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane--and on those whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados--Alan Shorter, Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka's literary style, with its deep roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musician friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered. He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, providing us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging
Black fire; an anthology of Afro-American writing by
Amiri Baraka(
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43 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,643 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In essays, poems, short stories and plays, over seventy black writers, among whom are included Stokely Carmichael, Harold Cruse, A.B. Spellman, Sun-Ra, Ed Bullins, and the editors themselves, search for a definition of the black sensibility - the sensibility of a colonialized people waking up to the realities of the contemporary world. Never has there been a book so revealing of the black man's view of the world and of himself"--Jacket
43 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,643 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In essays, poems, short stories and plays, over seventy black writers, among whom are included Stokely Carmichael, Harold Cruse, A.B. Spellman, Sun-Ra, Ed Bullins, and the editors themselves, search for a definition of the black sensibility - the sensibility of a colonialized people waking up to the realities of the contemporary world. Never has there been a book so revealing of the black man's view of the world and of himself"--Jacket
Home; social essays by
Amiri Baraka(
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52 editions published between 1961 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,553 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The author, poet, playwright, and composer documents the racial politics of America between 1960 and 1965 in a collection of essays on urban life, boxing, black sexuality, Harlem, and the Cuban revolution
52 editions published between 1961 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,553 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The author, poet, playwright, and composer documents the racial politics of America between 1960 and 1965 in a collection of essays on urban life, boxing, black sexuality, Harlem, and the Cuban revolution
Black theater, U.S.A.; forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974 by
James V Hatch(
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2 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 1,527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Various themes and styles are represented in this anthology of comic and tragic works by Black American playwrights
2 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 1,527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Various themes and styles are represented in this anthology of comic and tragic works by Black American playwrights
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka reader by
Amiri Baraka(
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31 editions published between 1991 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,454 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of short and excerpted works by the controversial poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer, from the late 1950s to the present
31 editions published between 1991 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,454 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of short and excerpted works by the controversial poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer, from the late 1950s to the present
Four Black revolutionary plays : all praises to the Black man by
Amiri Baraka(
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40 editions published between 1969 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains four one-act plays by Amiri Baraka, formerly LeRoi Jones
40 editions published between 1969 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains four one-act plays by Amiri Baraka, formerly LeRoi Jones
Anger, and beyond: the Negro writer in the United States by
Herbert Hill(
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1 edition published in 1966 in English and held by 1,368 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1966 in English and held by 1,368 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Tales by
Amiri Baraka(
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33 editions published between 1967 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 1,340 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This reissue of a 1967 story collection shows a mind in motion and graphs Baraka's thoughts during that turbulent period
33 editions published between 1967 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 1,340 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This reissue of a 1967 story collection shows a mind in motion and graphs Baraka's thoughts during that turbulent period
The system of Dante's Hell by
Amiri Baraka(
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22 editions published between 1965 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 1,216 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Autobiographical novel of black radical writer (aka, LeRoi Jones). The novel follows a young black man living nomadically in big cities and small towns in the southern United States, and his struggles with segregation and racism. The book correlates the man's experience with Dante's Inferno, and includes a diagram of the fictional hell described by Dante. --wikipedia.com
22 editions published between 1965 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 1,216 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Autobiographical novel of black radical writer (aka, LeRoi Jones). The novel follows a young black man living nomadically in big cities and small towns in the southern United States, and his struggles with segregation and racism. The book correlates the man's experience with Dante's Inferno, and includes a diagram of the fictional hell described by Dante. --wikipedia.com
Tales of the out & the gone by
Amiri Baraka(
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13 editions published between 2006 and 2013 in English and held by 1,081 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century-most of which has never been published-Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America's most provocative literary anti-hero
13 editions published between 2006 and 2013 in English and held by 1,081 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century-most of which has never been published-Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America's most provocative literary anti-hero
Black short story anthology by
Woodie King(
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1 edition published in 1972 in English and held by 1,024 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Each of the stories in this volume stands by itself as a finely wrought individual expression of one Black writer's experience, talent, and vision
1 edition published in 1972 in English and held by 1,024 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Each of the stories in this volume stands by itself as a finely wrought individual expression of one Black writer's experience, talent, and vision
The dead lecturer; poems by
Amiri Baraka(
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15 editions published between 1964 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,021 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones
15 editions published between 1964 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,021 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones
Transbluesency : the selected poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961-1995) by
Amiri Baraka(
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20 editions published between 1955 and 2011 in English and held by 991 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Starting with a Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, and including many out-of-print and limited edition chapbooks and broadsides, Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka concisely illuminates Baraka's almost single-handed renovation of both the nature and form of post-WWII African American literature, and his profound influence on a generation of poets of all ethnic backgrounds
20 editions published between 1955 and 2011 in English and held by 991 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Starting with a Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, and including many out-of-print and limited edition chapbooks and broadsides, Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka concisely illuminates Baraka's almost single-handed renovation of both the nature and form of post-WWII African American literature, and his profound influence on a generation of poets of all ethnic backgrounds
Slave ship : a one act play by
Amiri Baraka(
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16 editions published between 1966 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 949 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
16 editions published between 1966 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 949 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Confirmation, an anthology of AfricanAmerican women(
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13 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 897 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
13 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 897 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The baptism & the toilet by
Amiri Baraka(
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17 editions published between 1966 and 1990 in English and held by 878 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Baptism and The Toilet are two of LeRoi Jones' earliest plays. The Baptism, a viciously comic assault on diverse hypocrisies--religious, social, sexual--which inform contemporary American life, and The Toilet, a tough, relentless study of tenderness crushed and destroyed by an adolescent code of violence, comprise a pair of the most powerful one-act plays to be produced in New York in years."--Back cover
17 editions published between 1966 and 1990 in English and held by 878 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Baptism and The Toilet are two of LeRoi Jones' earliest plays. The Baptism, a viciously comic assault on diverse hypocrisies--religious, social, sexual--which inform contemporary American life, and The Toilet, a tough, relentless study of tenderness crushed and destroyed by an adolescent code of violence, comprise a pair of the most powerful one-act plays to be produced in New York in years."--Back cover
S O S : poems 1961-2013 by
Amiri Baraka(
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11 editions published between 2014 and 2016 in English and held by 839 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Throughout Baraka's career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. The environments and social values that inspired his poetics changed during the course of his life, a trajectory that can be traced in this retrospective spanning more than five decades of profoundly evolving subjects and techniques. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology. All along, his primary focus was on how to live and love in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human history. Selected and prefaced by Paul Vangelisti, S O S is the essential edition of Baraka's poetic work"--
11 editions published between 2014 and 2016 in English and held by 839 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Throughout Baraka's career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken against oppression of African American citizens, and he radically altered the discourse surrounding racial inequality. The environments and social values that inspired his poetics changed during the course of his life, a trajectory that can be traced in this retrospective spanning more than five decades of profoundly evolving subjects and techniques. Praised for its lyricism and introspection, his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology. All along, his primary focus was on how to live and love in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human history. Selected and prefaced by Paul Vangelisti, S O S is the essential edition of Baraka's poetic work"--
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Related Identities
- Baldwin, James 1924-1987 Interviewee
- Wright, Richard 1908-1960
- Ellison, Ralph
- Brooks, Gwendolyn 1917-2000 Performer Author
- Hughes, Langston 1902-1967 Author
- Wright, James 1927-1980
- Duncan, Robert 1919-1988 Performer Author
- Neal, Larry 1937-1981 Author Editor
- Bishop, Elizabeth 1911-1979
- Wilbur, Richard 1921-2017
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Αμίρι Μπαράκα
Амири Барака
Барака Амири
Барака Имаму Амири
Джонс Лерой
Джонс Эверетт Лерой
Джонс Эверетт ЛеРуа
אמירי ברקה
أميري بركة
امیری باراکا شاعر و نویسنده آمریکایی
بركة، أميري، 1934-
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