Books written by LeRoi Jones

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  Dutchman and the Slave

  Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking plays--in ideas, in language, in honest anger.

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  Home: Social Essays

  The author, poet, playwright, and composer documents the racial politics of America between 1960 and 1965 in a collection of essays on urban life, boxing, black sexuality, Harlem, and the Cuban revolution.

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  Black Music

  Discusses modern jazz movements and musicians, including Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, and Sun-Ra.

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  Black Music

  The essential collection of jazz writing by the celebrated poet and author of Blues People—reissued with a new introduction by the author.

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  The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America (Classic Reprint)

  About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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  Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones

  A collection of poems, some recent and some previously out-of-print, includes Malcolm Remembered (Feb. '77), 3rd World Blues, Nixon, Civil Rights Poem, Young Soul, and Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

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  Black Music

  In the essay “Jazz and the White Critic” LeRoi Jones observes: “Most jazz critics have been white Americans, but most important jazz musicians have not been.” In Black Music ,...

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  Blues People: Negro Music in White America

  " So says Amiri Baraka in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history.

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  Home: Social Essays

  Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was known not only as a poet, playwright, and founder of the Black Arts movement, but also as one of the most provocative voices of the civil rights era and beyond.