The Cricket (magazine) explained
| The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution |
| Category: | Music magazine |
| Company: | Drum Publications Ltd |
| Founded: | 1968 |
| Finaldate: | 1969 |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Website: | The Cricket |
The Cricket, subtitled "Black Music in Evolution", was a magazine created in 1968 by Amiri Baraka (then known as LeRoi Jones), Larry Neal and A. B. Spellman.[1] Baraka has said: "Larry Neal, AB and I realized the historical influence of music on African /Afro American Culture. I saw the magazine as a necessary dispenser of this influence as part of a continuum. And that attention to the culture was a way of drawing attention to the people's needs and struggle."[2] The headquarters was in New York City.[3]
Four issues of The Cricket were published from 1968 to 1969.[4] Contributors included Sonia Sanchez, Don L. Lee, Milford Graves, Oliver Nelson, Sun Ra, Stanley Crouch, Askia Muhammad Touré, Albert Ayler, Willie Kgositsile, Ishmael Reed, and many others.[5]
Further reading
- Gennari, John. Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics. University of Chicago Press, 2006. p. 287 - 290.
- Funkhouser, Christopher. "LeRoi Jones, Larry Neal, and the Cricket: Jazz and Poets' Black Fire", African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003.
- Komozi Woodard Amiri Baraka Collection, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History. Series I: Black Arts Movement, 1961–1998.
- Poet Amiri Baraka on the freedom movement and Black art, The Gainesville Iguana, January 2007.
- Thomas, Lorenzo and Nielsen, Aldon Lynn. Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition. University of Michigan Press, 2008, p. 131.
- Salaam, Kalamu ya. Djali Dialogue with Amiri Baraka, First in a Series of Conversations with Established and Emerging African-American Writers. The Black Collegian Magazine.
- Smethurst, James. "Pat Your Foot and Turn the Corner: Amiri Baraka, the Black Arts Movement, and the Poetics of a Popular Avant-Garde", African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003.
- Hanson, Michael. "Suppose James Brown read Fanon: the Black Arts Movement, cultural nationalism and the failure of popular musical praxis", Popular Music. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 27:341-365.
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Notes and References
- Book: Daniel Fischlin. Ajay Heble. George Lipsitz. The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation. 19 February 2016. 14 June 2013. Duke University Press. 978-0-8223-5478-9. 103.
- http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Baraka%20interview.htm Aaron Winslow, "Amiri Baraka Interview"
- Web site: The Cricket. Chimurenga Library. 19 February 2016.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=-yBj8X5y7lUC&dq=the+cricket+leroi+jones&pg=PA103 Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, George Lipsitz, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation
- http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/academic/upa_cis/10721_blackpowermovempt1.pdf "0158 The Cricket
