Meredith Nnoka
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C&R Press
A Hunger Called Music: A Verse History of Black Music
Paginas
32Formato
PaperbackFecha de lanzamiento
October 2016Editora
C&R PressPeso
2.5 ozTamaño
5.98 x 0.1 x 9.02 "
Borrowing from such sources as archival recordings and news stories, A Hunger Called Music documents the early history of African-American music beginning with work songs and ending with Motown-era soul. Using each genre's historical context and the music itself as inspiration, the poems in the chapbook take on a range of voices and stories from Robert Johnson to Nina Simone, and from a white 1950s record producer to a witness to police brutality. In doing so, the poems work to unearth the commonalities of experience between previous eras and the current one through the intergenerational constant of music.
