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Jess, Tyehimba.
Subjects
Blacks -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Poetry.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Black -- Poetry.
Blacks in the performing arts -- United States -- 19th century -- Poetry.
Blacks in the performing arts -- United States -- 20th century -- Poetry.
Entertainers, Black -- United States -- 19th century -- Poetry.
Blacks -- United States -- Poetry
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
American poetry -- 21st century.
American poetry -- Black authors.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry.
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Jess, Tyehimba.
Blacks -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Poetry.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Black -- Poetry.
Blacks in the performing arts -- United States -- 19th century -- Poetry.
Blacks in the performing arts -- United States -- 20th century -- Poetry.
Entertainers, Black -- United States -- 19th century -- Poetry.
Blacks -- United States -- Poetry
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
American poetry -- 21st century.
American poetry -- Black authors.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry.
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Olio
/ Tyehimba Jess.
by
Jess, Tyehimba.
Wave Books, [2016]
Call #:
811.6 J58o
Subjects
Blacks -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Poetry.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Black -- Poetry.
Blacks in the performing arts -- United States -- 19th century -- Poetry.
Blacks in the performing arts -- United States -- 20th century -- Poetry.
Entertainers, Black -- United States -- 19th century -- Poetry.
Blacks -- United States -- Poetry
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
American poetry -- 21st century.
American poetry -- Black authors.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry.
ISBN:
9781940696201 (pbk.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
235 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Poems.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-230).
Contents:
Fisk Jubilee Proclamation -- Julius Monroe Trotter submission to The Crisis -- Jubilee Blues -- Blind Tom plays for Confederate troops, 1863 -- General James Bethune and John Bethune introduce Blind Tom -- What marked Tom? -- Mark Twain v. Blind Tom -- Blind Tom plays for a packed house, 1873 -- Millie McKoy & Christine McKoy recall meeting Blind Tom, 1877 -- What the wind, rain, and thunder said to Tom -- General Bethune v. W.C. Handy, 1885 -- Charity on Blind Tom -- Eliza Bethune v. Charity Wiggins -- General Bethune on Blind Tom -- Duet: Blind Boone meets Blind Tom, 1889 -- Blind Tom plays on ... -- Blind Tom: one body, two graves; Brooklyn/Georgia -- Jubilee: Isaac Dickerson (1852-1900) -- Interview: Della Marie Jenkins, RN -- Jubilee: Eliza Walker (1857-?) -- Millie and Christine McKoy -- Millie-Christine: on display -- Millie-Christine are kidnapped -- Millie-Christine's love story -- Millie-Christine buy land -- McKoy twins syncopated star -- step right up -- Jubilee: Ben Holmes (1846-1875) -- Interview: Sam Patterson -- Jubilee: Minnie Tate (1857-?) -- Mirror of slavery -- mirror chicanery -- Pre-face: Berryman-Brown -- Freedsong: dream gone -- Freedsong: dream dawn -- Freedsong: so long! (duet) -- Freedsong: dream long -- Freedsong: of 1850 -- Freedsong: dream wronged -- Freedsong: dream of my son -- Freedsong: dream strong -- Freedsong: of 1876 -- Freedsong: dream song -- Jubilee: George White (1838-1895) -- Interview: John William "Blind" Boone -- Jubilee: Maggie Porter (1853-1942) -- Apparition in C -- Roots of Boone -- Apparition in Eb -- Blind Boone's blessings -- Apparition in F -- Blind Boone's vision -- Apparition in F# -- Blind Boone's escape -- Apparition in G -- Blind Boone's rage -- Apparition in Bb -- Blind Boone's pianola blues -- Apparition in C -- Jubilee: Greene Evans (1848-1914) -- Interview: Carmen LeDieux -- Jubilee: Ella Sheppard (1851-1914) -- Bert Williams-George Walker paradox -- The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide -- All coons look alike to me 1 -- Coon songs must go!-Coon songs go on (1) -- All coons look alike to me! 2 -- Coon songs must go!-Coon songs go on (2) -- All coons look alike to me! 3 -- Coon songs must go!-Coon songs go on (3) -- Dunbar-Booker double shovel table 2-3-table 2-5 -- Jubilee: Thomas Rutling (1854?-1915) -- Interview: Lottie Joplin, Part 1 -- Jubilee: Jennie Jackson (1852-1910) -- WPA interview: E. Shoe -- My name is Sissieretta Jones -- WPA interview: E. Shoe -- Sissieretta Jones, Carnegie Hall, 1902: O patria mia -- WPA interview: E. Shoe -- Sissieretta Jones: ad libitum -- WPA interview: E. Shoe -- Sissieretta Jones & the Black Patti Troubadours: Forte-Grazioso -- WPA interview: E. Shoe -- Jubilee Indigo -- Interview: Lottie Joplin, Part 2 -- Berlin v. Joplin: Alexander's real slow drag -- Jubilee Mission -- Alabaster hands -- Forever free -- Hagar in the wilderness -- Hiawatha -- The death of Cleopatra -- Indian combat -- Minnehaha -- Colonel Robert Gould Shaw -- Edmonia Lewis: provenance -- We've sung each free day like it's salvation -- Last letter home -- Appendix -- Presenting: The Dunbar-Booker Double Shovel -- Presenting: The Bert Williams/George Walker Paradox -- Step Right Up! Henry "Box" Brown Facing/Evading Slave Capture Dream on ... Duet -- Notes on Jubilee and Syncopated Sonnets -- The Trotter Interviews --
Olio
timeline.
Summary:
"With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Tyehimba Jess presents the sweat and story behind America's blues, worksongs and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I.
Olio
is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them. "So, while I lead this choir, I still find that I'm being led... I'm a missionary mending my faith in the midst of this flock... I toil in their fields of praise. When folks see these freedmen stand and sing, they hear their God speak in tongues. These nine dark mouths sing shelter; they echo a hymn's haven from slavery's weather." Detroit native Tyehimba Jess is an Associate Professor of English at CUNY College of Staten Island. He is the author of He is the author of Leadbelly (published in 2005)"--Provided by publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2017.
Genre:
American poetry.
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