A Hunger Called Music: A Verse History of Black Music

Borrowing from such sources as archival recordings and news stories, A Hunger Called Music documents the early history of African-American music beginning with work songs and ending with Motown-era soul. Using each genre’s historical context and the music itself as inspiration, the poems in the chapbook take on a range of voices and stories from Robert Johnson to Nina Simone, and from a white 1950s record producer to a witness to police brutality. In doing so, the poems work to unearth the commonalities of experience between previous eras and the current one through the intergenerational constant of music.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Nnoka, Meredith
Published: 10/01/2016
Publisher: C&r Press
ISBN: 9781936196784
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d