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Synopsis
Embraces the entire history of jazz poetry from 1920s racist poems to contemporary poetry, which has changed in tone from elegy to celebration.
Booknews
Jazz poet Feinstein (English, Lycoming College) addresses diverse aspects of jazz poetry and its history, from the racist, anti-jazz poetry of the 1920s to the poetry of Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, and Melvin Tolson; and then from the 1950s era when poets popularized readings with live jazz accompaniment and turned to Charlie Parker as their artistic and spiritual leader to the 1960s, when poets focused more on John Coltrane and equated his music with Malcolm X and the Black Civil Rights movement. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.