The Cricket (magazine)
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{{Infobox magazine
| title = The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution
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| editor = Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones), Larry Neal, and A. B. Spellman
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| category = Music magazine
| company = Drum Publications Ltd
| founded = 1968
| finaldate = 1969
| country = United States
| based = New York City
| language = English
| website = [http://www.chimurengalibrary.co.za/periodicals.php?id=28 The Cricket]
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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.{{cite book|author1=Daniel Fischlin|author2=Ajay Heble|author3=George Lipsitz|title=The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-yBj8X5y7lUC&pg=PA103|accessdate=19 February 2016|date=14 June 2013|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-5478-9|page=103}} 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."[http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Baraka%20interview.htm Aaron Winslow, "Amiri Baraka Interview"], The Argotist Online. The headquarters was in New York City.{{cite web|title=The Cricket|url=http://chimurengalibrary.co.za/the-cricket-black-music-in-evolution|work=Chimurenga Library|accessdate=19 February 2016}}
Four issues of The Cricket were published from 1968 to 1969.[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], Duke University Press, 2013, p. 103. 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.[http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/academic/upa_cis/10721_blackpowermovempt1.pdf "0158 The Cricket], [1969]. 56 frames." A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of The Black Power Movement - Part 1: Amiri Baraka from Black Arts to Black Radicalism (John H. Bracey Jr and Sharon Harley, eds).
References
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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.
External links
- [http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/aafa/print/aafa_aarl01-001.html Komozi Woodard Amiri Baraka Collection]
- [http://www.afn.org/~iguana/archives/2007_01/20070108.html Poet Amiri Baraka on the freedom movement and Black art]
- [http://www.black-collegian.com/african/baraka-a1299.shtml Djali Dialogue with Amiri Baraka, First in a Series of Conversations with Established and Emerging African-American Writers.]
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Category:African-American magazines
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