{"product_id":"integral-music-aldon-lynn-nielsen-9780817314330","title":"Integral Music: Languages of African-American Innovation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn important study of African American contributions to contemporary American poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAldon Nielsen's book \u003ci\u003eBlack Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 1997) was a ground-breaking work of scholarship that examined modern and postmodern developments in the work of African American poets since the Second World War and their contributions to both African American culture and American modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntegral Music\u003c\/i\u003e extends the terms of the studies begun in \u003ci\u003eBlack Chant\u003c\/i\u003e through a more in-depth look at the work of key writers and poets in the decades following the Second World War. While Nielsen examines anew such key figures as Amiri Baraka, he also provides the first extended studies of significant but often overlooked figures in African American poetry, such as Russell Atkins and Stephen Jonas. His essay on Bob Kaufman points toward the critical intersection of poetry and jazz in African American letters, as does his essay on performance poet Jayne Cortez.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNielsen's studies in this volume affirm the importance and centrality of African American poets to American intellectual life and international, modernist, and postmodernist poetry today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aldon Lynn Nielsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817314334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817314330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.48w x 0.90d","brand":"Aldon Lynn Nielsen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096753316095,"sku":"9780817314330","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/integral-music-aldon-lynn-nielsen-9780817314330","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}