Poet, playwright, critic, and novelist Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones) is best known to the jazz community for his two books, -Blues People: Negro Music in White America, published in 1964, and -Black Music in 1967, both as LeRoi Jones. Long before this, however, Baraka was identified with the New York School of poets and the Beats (he was included in %Donald Allen's seminal anthology -The New American Poetry). His first book of poetry, -Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note was published in 1961. With %Diane Di Prima he founded and edited the legendary ~Floating Bear newsletter. Baraka founded the Black Arts Repertory Theater/School and won an Obie award for his play +Dutchman in 1964.
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