TY - BOOK AU - Marcoux,Jean-Philippe TI - Jazz Griots: Music As History in the 1960s African American Poem SN - 9780739166741 AV - PS310.J39.M37 2012eb U1 - 811/.509357 PY - 2012/// CY - Blue Ridge Summit PB - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic KW - American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Intravernacular Dialogues, Jazz Performativity, and the Griot's Meta-linguistic Praxes -- Chapter 1 The Sound of Grammar: Blues and Jazz as Meta-languages of Storytelling in Langston Hughes's Ask Your Mama -- Chapter 2 Move On Up: Free Jazz and Rhythm and Blues Performativities as Creative Acts of Cultural Re-inscription in David Henderson's De Mayor of Harlem -- Chapter 3 Sister in the Struggle: Jazz Linguistics and the Feminized Quest for a Communicative "Sound" in Sonia Sanchez's Home Coming and We A BaddDDD People -- Chapter 4 Birth of a Free Jazz Nation: Amiri Baraka's Jazz Historiography from Black Magic to Wise Why's Y's -- Coda -- Bibliography N2 - To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hypotheses about how Black poets transcribe jazz into the poetic format, this book, while providing a different approach to reading jazz poetry, attempts to answer the question, why do Black poets revert to jazz for poetic material. This book's answer is because jazz is Black History ritualized and performed, and jazz performance is storytelling UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1921136 ER -