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African American entertainers 19th century Poetry African American musicians Poetry African Americans in the performing arts 19th century Poetry African Americans in the performing arts 20th century Poetry African Americans Poetry African Americans Social life and customs 19th century Poetry Blues (Music) Poetry Blues musicians Poetry United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Poetry World War, 1914-1918 Participation, African American PoetryJess, Tyehimba.
Summary: A biography in poems, leadbelly examines the life and times of the legendary blues musician from a variety of intimate perspectives and using a range of innovative poetic forms. A collage of song, culture, and circumstance, alive and speaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verse Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JESJess, Tyehimba
Summary: "Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them,"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2016