Baraka's bohemian blues.
| Publisher | African American Review |
| Publication | African American Review |
| Subject | Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 1062-4783 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Published | 2003-06-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Biographee | n/a | Amiri Baraka |
| Author | n/a | John Gennari |
In a letter to Down Beat in 1964, the avant-garde jazz trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon complained that LeRoi Jones's jazz writing "too obviously smacks of a kind of "in-group' superiority generally and rightly associated with pseudo-intellectuals." Dixon questioned whether Jones wrote on jazz "because he loves the music and wants to help it and its practitioners, knows the music and feels he has something to say, or if he feels that by stirring up 'controversies' his name will become synonymous with those he constantly champions, thereby creating a niche in the world of jazz for...
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