Baraka, Amiri 1934-2014
Overview
| Works: | 1,331 works in 3,175 publications in 7 languages and 94,553 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Drama Poetry Jazz Fiction Short stories Literature Essays Biography Biographies |
| Roles: | Author, Interviewee, Editor, Narrator, Speaker, Performer, Author of screenplay, Other, Writer of accompanying material, Bibliographic antecedent, Lyricist, Costume designer, Instrumentalist, Dedicatee, Creator, Actor |
| 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( )
- The Columbia history of American poetry by Jay Parini( Book )
- American poetry since 1945 : a critical survey by Stephen Stepanchev( Book )
- 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( )
- Scars of conquest/masks of resistance : the invention of cultural identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean drama by Tejumola Olaniyan( )
- Five Black writers : essays on Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Hughes, and Le Roi Jones by Donald B Gibson( Book )
- Amiri Baraka by Lloyd W Brown( Book )
- The Black American writer by C. W. E Bigsby( Book )
- Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn : the collected letters by Claudia Moreno Pisano( )
- Contemporary poets by Harold Bloom( Book )
- Amiri Baraka : the politics and art of a Black intellectual by Jerry Gafio Watts( Book )
- From LeRoi Jones to Amiri Baraka: the literary works by Theodore R Hudson( 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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112 editions published between 1963 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 2,909 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Examines the history of the Negro in America through the music he created
112 editions published between 1963 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 2,909 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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84 editions published between 1967 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,550 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
84 editions published between 1967 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,550 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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46 editions published between 1964 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,191 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Two short plays, dramatizations of the racial dilemma in America
46 editions published between 1964 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,191 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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10 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 2,019 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
10 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 2,019 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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33 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,618 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
33 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,618 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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48 editions published between 1961 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,526 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
48 editions published between 1961 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,526 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 1,513 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 1,513 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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26 editions published between 1991 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,447 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
26 editions published between 1991 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,447 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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36 editions published between 1969 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,360 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains four one-act plays by Amiri Baraka, formerly LeRoi Jones
36 editions published between 1969 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,360 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 1,350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A collection of essays by Negro and white writers exploring not only the history of Negro writing in America but also its psychological and creative strength...It is a commonplace that the majority of Americans know little of the ever-increasing body of Negro literature produced in the U.S. Hill's book takes an important stride in making available to student and layman alike a further means of understanding this distinctly American literature." -- Back cover
1 edition published in 1966 in English and held by 1,350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A collection of essays by Negro and white writers exploring not only the history of Negro writing in America but also its psychological and creative strength...It is a commonplace that the majority of Americans know little of the ever-increasing body of Negro literature produced in the U.S. Hill's book takes an important stride in making available to student and layman alike a further means of understanding this distinctly American literature." -- Back cover
Tales by
Amiri Baraka(
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35 editions published between 1967 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 1,333 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
35 editions published between 1967 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 1,333 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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18 editions published between 1965 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 1,207 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
18 editions published between 1965 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 1,207 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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15 editions published between 2006 and 2013 in English and held by 1,104 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
15 editions published between 2006 and 2013 in English and held by 1,104 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
The dead lecturer; poems by
Amiri Baraka(
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22 editions published between 1964 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,034 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones
22 editions published between 1964 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,034 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones
Slave ship : a one act play by
Amiri Baraka(
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18 editions published between 1966 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 985 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
18 editions published between 1966 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 985 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Confirmation, an anthology of AfricanAmerican women(
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13 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 894 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
13 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 894 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The baptism & the toilet by
Amiri Baraka(
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20 editions published between 1966 and 1978 in English and held by 873 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
20 editions published between 1966 and 1978 in English and held by 873 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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12 editions published between 2014 and 2016 in English and held by 857 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"--
12 editions published between 2014 and 2016 in English and held by 857 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"--
Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ... by
Amiri Baraka(
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27 editions published between 1961 and 2011 in English and held by 831 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
27 editions published between 1961 and 2011 in English and held by 831 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Raise, race, rays, raze : essays since 1965 by
Amiri Baraka(
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15 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in English and Undetermined and held by 812 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This book contains essays on race relations in America since 1965
15 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in English and Undetermined and held by 812 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This book contains essays on race relations in America since 1965
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Related Identities
- Baldwin, James 1924-1987 Interviewee
- Ellison, Ralph
- Brooks, Gwendolyn 1917-2000 Author
- Wright, Richard 1908-1960
- Hughes, Langston 1902-1967 Performer Author
- Hansberry, Lorraine 1930-1965 Author
- Neal, Larry 1937-1981 Author
- Wilbur, Richard 1921-2017
- Duncan, Robert 1919-1988 Performer Author
- Ashbery, John 1927-2017 Performer
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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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