TY - BOOK ID - 78340908 TI - Jazz griots PY - 2012 SN - 0739166743 9780739166741 1306538769 9781306538763 9780739166734 0739166735 PB - Lanham, Md. DB - UniCat KW - American poetry KW - Jazz in literature. KW - Griots. KW - African Americans KW - English language KW - Historians KW - Storytellers KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Intellectual life KW - Rhythm. KW - Metrics and rhythmics KW - Versification KW - History and criticism KW - Jazz in literature KW - Griots KW - 20th century KW - Rhythm KW - Hughes, Langston KW - Sanchez, Sonia KW - Henderson, David KW - Baraka, Imamu Amiri KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Germanic languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78340908 AB - 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. ER -