AMIRI BARAKA

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The dramatist, novelist and poet, Amiri Baraka is one of the most respected and widely published African-American writers. With the beginning of Black Civil Rights Movements during the sixties, Baraka explored the anger of African-Americans and used his writings as a weapon against racism. Also, he advocated scientific socialism with his revolutionary inclined poems and aimed at creating aesthetic through them.

Amiri Baraka’s writing career spans over nearly fifty years and has mostly focused on the subjects of Black Liberation and White Racism. Today, a number of well known poems, short stories, plays and commentaries on society, music and literature are associated with his name. A few of the famous ones include, ‘The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues’, ‘The Book of Monk’ and ‘New Music, New Poetry’ among others.

The literary world respects the playwright and poet, Amiri Baraka as one of the revolutionary provocateurs of African-American poetry. He is counted
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AMIRI BARAKA A Black Mass (as LeRoi Jones) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Black Mass (as LeRoi Jones)
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1968
AMIRI BARAKA It's Nation Time - African Visionary Music album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
It's Nation Time - African Visionary Music
Vocal Jazz 1972
AMIRI BARAKA Real Song album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Real Song
Vocal Jazz 1995

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AMIRI BARAKA New Music - New Poetry album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
New Music - New Poetry
Vocal Jazz 1982

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