{"title":"A B Spellman","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cricket-black-music-in-evolution-1968-69-book-a-b-spellman-9781953691101","title":"The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution, 1968-69","description":"The Cricket: Black Evolution in Music is a rare document  of the  Black Arts Movement. Edited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, A. B. Spellman, and Larry Neal in 1968-69, and published by Baraka's New Jersey-based JIHAD productions around the time of the Newark Riots, this experimental music magazine ran poetry, short plays, and gossip alongside concert and record reviews and essays on music and politics. Over four mimeographed issues, The Cricket laid out an anti-commercial ideology and took aim at the conservative jazz press, providing a space for critics, poets, and journalists (including Stanley Crouch, Haki Madhubuti, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, and Keorapetse Kgositsile) and musicians (including Cecil Taylor, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Mtume, Albert Ayler, the Black Unity Trio) to devise new styles of music writing. The publication emerged from the heart of a political movement-\"a proto-ideology, akin to but younger than the Garveyite movement and the separatism of Elijah Mohammed,\" as Spellman write's in the books preface-and aimed to reunite advanced art with its community, \"to provide Black Music with a powerful historical and critical tool,\" and to enable avant-garde Black musicians and writers \"to finally make a way for themselves.\" This publication gathers all issues of the magazine with a new critical introduction by artist and writer Kodwo Eshun","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49747144311057,"sku":"NGR9781953691101","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49936733765905,"sku":"GOR013819152","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51062582903057,"sku":"NIN9781953691101","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1953691102.jpg?v=1751157351"},{"product_id":"between-the-night-and-its-music-book-a-b-spellman-9780819501196","title":"Between the Night and Its Music","description":"Classic and new work by poet and jazz writer A. B. Spellman \/\u0026gt; \/\u0026gt;A. B. Spellman is an acclaimed American poet, music critic, and arts administrator. He is widely recognized as a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, a cultural and literary movement that emphasized Black identity, pride, and artistic expression. Between the Night and Its Music brings together A. B. Spellman's early work with a collection of powerful new poems. Spellman's literary career took flight in 1965 with his debut poetry collection, The Beautiful Days, which introduced his distinctive voice blending elements of jazz, blues, and African oral traditions. In 1966, Four Lives in the Bebop Business established Spellman as a respected music critic and scholar. It was a groundbreaking work that chronicled the lives and struggles of four influential jazz musicians. Spellman held senior positions at the National Endowment for the Arts for thirty years with lasting impact on arts funding for inner cities and rural and tribal communities. In addition to poems from The Beautiful Days (1965) and Things I Must Have Known (2008), this book contains a trove of new and uncollected poems, confirming Spellman's continued centrality to contemporary American literature. This is an essential volume for readers already familiar with Spellman, and an excellent introduction for new readers. Lauri Scheyer's introduction situates Spellman's work within jazz writing, Black Arts, and American poetry broadly. \/\u0026gt; \/\u0026gt;[sample text] \/\u0026gt; \/\u0026gt;THE TWIST \/\u0026gt; \/\u0026gt;a dancer's world \/\u0026gt;is walls, movement \/\u0026gt;confined: music \/\u0026gt; \/\u0026gt;god's last breath. \/\u0026gt;rhythm: the last beating  \/\u0026gt;of his heart. a dancer \/\u0026gt; \/\u0026gt;follows that sound, blind \/\u0026gt;to its source, toward walls \/\u0026gt;with others. she cannot dance alone \/\u0026gt; \/\u0026gt;she thinks of thought \/\u0026gt;as windows, as ice around the dance \/\u0026gt;can you break it? move","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50769917411601,"sku":"GOR014064703","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50925444137233,"sku":"CIN0819501190G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008555319569,"sku":"NIN9780819501196","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52902451773713,"sku":"CIN0819501190LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0819501190.jpg?v=1750947178"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/collections\/autor-buecher-von-a-b-spellman.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}