Syllabus

Primary Texts:

  • Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
  • Toni Morrison – Jazz
  • Le Roi Jones, selected poetry
  • Angela Davis, selections from Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
  • Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man. “Remembering Jimmy”
  • James Baldwin – “Sonny’s Blues,” “Of the Sorrow Songs”
  • Billie Holiday  - A Musical Romance (CD)
  • Gayl Jones, Corregidora  

Secondary Readings:

  • James Baldwin – "Of the Sorrow Songs"
  • Langston Hughes – "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," “Jazz as Communication,” “Songs Called the Blues”
  • LeRoi Jones, Ch.1 and 2 from Blues People
  • Lawrence Levine – “Jazz and American Culture”
  • Toni Morrison  -  “Interview with Angels Carabi”
  • Albert Murray "Improvisation and the Creative Process"
  • Recordings by Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and others….
Published Oct. 20, 2014 11:23 AM