Jelani Cobb on the path cleared by Amiri Baraka: nyr.kr/1d6Arnf“Those of us who came of age
Jelani Cobb on the path cleared by Amiri Baraka: http://nyr.kr/1d6Arnf “Those of us who came of age listening to hip-hop and infused its idioms into our own prose were, knowingly or not, travelling the path that Baraka had cleared with the bebop-suffused lyricism of his writing. In fact, the birth of hip-hop, in the nineteen-seventies, was itself an outgrowth of the poetic experiments Baraka had helped to pioneer a decade earlier, with the Black Arts Movement.” Above: Amiri Baraka speaking at the Black National Political Convention in Gary, Indiana. March 12, 1972. Photograph: Gary Settle/The New York Times/Redux. -- source link