Interview with Amiri Baraka by Blues.gr (Greece)

An Interview with Amiri Baraka, a leading figure who has influenced politics, artistic and cultural life

• Posted by Michalis Limnios BLUES @ GREECE on September 30, 2012 at 12:00pm
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"The two things people just really need are education and employment based on that education."

Amiri Baraka:
Walk On To The Freedom Land

Before the Beats there was Jazz poetry. The poet/activist Amiri Baraka, a leading figure of the evolution of the spoken word genre, who has influenced politics, artistic practice and cultural change on an international scale. Amiri Baraka was born LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe.


 

After leaving Howard University and the Air Force, he moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1957 and co-edited the avant-garde literary magazine Yugen and founded Totem Press, which first published works by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others.

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