SOURCE: “Communicating by Horns: Jazz and Redemption in the Poetry of the Beats and the Black Arts Movement,” in African American Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer, 1992, pp. 291-298.
In the following essay, Thomas discusses the differing approaches to jazz music in the poetry of the Beats and African-American writers.
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