Foreword “We Seen It, Too”
Fred Moten
Introduction
Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Part I Perspectives on Record
Side A Home (A Cultural Space of Experiment)
1 Amiri Baraka Among the Bohemians: 27 Cooper Square
William J. Harris
2 Kulchur Wars
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
3 “Other Autobiographies”: Racial and Spiritual Consciousness and the Prism of Identity in Amiri Baraka’s 6 Persons
Kathy Lou Schultz
4 Baraka, Cullen, Trethewey: Incidents
Tyrone Williams
5 “Legitimate Black Heroes”: Amiri Baraka’s Prescient Views on the Politics of Sports
Emily Ruth Rutter
6 Hegel off the Tracks
Jeremy Matthew Glick
Side B The Music (Ideations and Renegotiations)
7 The Five Spot Café
William J. Harris
8 “Of Langston and Langston Manifestos”: Langston Hughes and the Revolutionary Jazz Poetry of Amiri Baraka
John Lowney
9 Amiri Baraka and the Dream of Unity Music
Grégory Pierrot
10 “A Marching Song for Some Strange Uncharted Country”: The Black Nation, Black Revolution, and Amiri Baraka’s Liner Notes
James Smethurst
11 Baraka’s Speculative Revolutions
Benjamin Lee
12 Black and Blues: Amiri Baraka and Gil Scott-Heron’s Political Poetry
Michael J. New
13 “Pick Up Them Cliffords”: Amiri Baraka, Clifford Brown, and the Coinage of Currency
Aidan Levy
14 We Are the (Rhythm and) Blues
Anthony Reed
Part II In the Tradition: Reassessments, Recollections, Legacies
15 The Legacy and Place of Amiri Baraka
Lauri Scheyer
16 Anthologizing the Poetry of Amiri Baraka, 1960–2018
Howard Rambsy II
17 Black (Feminist) Art: Contemporary Black Female Poets Speak Back to Baraka
Laura Vrana
18 Black Magic: Evolving Notions of Gender and Sexuality in the Work of Amiri Baraka
Amy Abugo Ongiri
19 Amina Baraka: The Woman Who Guided the Ship
Kim McMillon
20 Amiri Baraka: Mentoring as Revolutionary Praxis
Michael Simanga
21 The Overlooked Spirit Reach of Amiri Baraka’s Terribleness
Kalamu ya Salaam
Blues/Funk Outro Amiri Baraka as Cultural Philosopher
Tony Bolden
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index