Nothing but the music : documentaries from nightclubs, dance halls & a tailor's shop in Dakar : 1974-1992 /

Nothing but the music : documentaries from nightclubs, dance halls & a tailor's shop in Dakar : 1974-1992 /

"The sounds of late '70s and '80s East Coast avant-garde jazz, soul, and punk rock are well documented, but in Nothing but the Music Thulani Davis gives us something beyond, delivering a collection of synesthetic, transportive documentary poems that breathe anecdotal and impressionist...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Thulani (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Blank Forms Editions, [2020]
Subjects:
1900-1999
American poetry > 20th century.
African Americans > Music > Poetry.
African Americans.
American poetry.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: give me the romance and the zoom / Jessica Hagedorn
  • Introduction / Tobi Haslett
  • For Ishmael Houston-Jones
  • Mecca Flats 1907
  • C.T. at the Five Spot
  • On 5 compositions Roscoe Mitchell
  • Back stage drama (for Miami)
  • X-75-Vol. I, Henry Threadgill "Side A (Sir Simpleton/Celebration)"
  • X-75-Vol. I, Henry Threadgill "Side B (Air song/Fe fi fo fum)"
  • Expandable language
  • It's time for the Rhythm Revue
  • Cicatrix
  • He didn't give up/He was taken
  • As I fly over this time
  • Rogue & Jar: 4/27/77
  • C.T.'s variation
  • Bad Brains, a band
  • Storyville, New York City 7/28/77
  • A man's tailor/Dakar
  • T-monious
  • Leaving Goree
  • Lawn chair on the sidewalk
  • Zoom (the Commodores).