The Cricket (magazine)
The Cricket, subtitled "Black Music in Evolution", was a magazine created in 1968 by Amiri Baraka (then 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]
| Editor | Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones), Larry Neal, and A. B. Spellman |
|---|---|
| Categories | Music magazine |
| Year founded | 1968 |
| Final issue | 1969 |
| Company | Drum Publications Ltd |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| Website | The Cricket |
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]
References
- Daniel Fischlin; Ajay Heble; George Lipsitz (14 June 2013). The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation. Duke University Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-8223-5478-0. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- Aaron Winslow, "Amiri Baraka Interview", The Argotist Online.
- "The Cricket". Chimurenga Library. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, George Lipsitz, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation, Duke University Press, 2013, p. 103.
- "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).
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.
- Kalamu ya Salaam. 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.