ISBN: 068818474X Author: By Imamu Amiri Baraka, Amiri Baraka, Leroi Jones Publisher: William Morrow & Co Published: 1983 Format: Paperback 256 pages 1st Quill edition Dimensions: 0.80 x 8.24 x 5.33
"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music." - author Amiri Baraka.
