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Umbra (poets)
Umbra was a collective of young black writers based in Manhattan's Lower East Side that was founded in 1962. Background Umbra was one of the first post-civil rights Black literary groups of people to make an impact as radical in the sense of establishing their own voice distinct from, and sometimes at odds with, the prevailing white literary establishment. The attempt to merge a Black-oriented activist thrust with a primarily artistic orientation produced a classic split in Umbra between those who wanted to be activists and those who thought of themselves as primarily writers, though to some extent all members shared both views. Black writers have always had to face the issue of whether their work was primarily political or aesthetic. Moreover, Umbra itself had evolved out of similar circumstances: in 1960, a Black nationalist literary organization, On Guard for Freedom, had been founded on the Lower East Side by Calvin Hicks. Its members included Nannie and Walter Bowe, Harold Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black People
Black is a racial classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion. Not all people considered "black" have dark skin and often additional phenotypical characteristics are relevant, such as facial and hair-texture features; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned compared to other populations. It is most commonly used for people of sub-Saharan African ancestry, Indigenous Australians and Melanesians, though it has been applied in many contexts to other groups, and is no indicator of any close ancestral relationship whatsoever. Indigenous African societies do not use the term ''black'' as a racial identity outside of influences brought by Western cultures. Contemporary anthropologists and other scientists, while recognizing the reality of biological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Henderson (poet)
David Henderson (born September 19, 1942) is an American writer and poet. Henderson was a co-founder of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s. He has been an active member of New York’s Lower East Side art community for more than 40 years. His work has appeared in many literary publications and anthologies, and he has published four volumes of his own poetry. He is best known for his highly acclaimed biography of rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix, which Henderson revised and expanded for a second edition that was published in 2009. Life and work David Henderson was born on September 19, 1942, in Harlem, New York City. He was raised in Harlem, and attended Bronx Community College, Hunter College and the New School for Social Research. He studied writing, communications and Eastern cultures without ever completing a degree. His first published poem appeared in the New York newsweekly ''Black American'' in 1960. Henderson became active in the many Black nationalist, arts and anti-war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Thomas (poet)
Lorenzo Thomas (August 31, 1944 – July 4, 2005) was an American poet and critic. He was born in the Republic of Panama and grew up in New York City, where his family immigrated in 1948. In 1973, Thomas moved to Houston, Texas. Thomas had a two decade career as a professor at the University of Houston–Downtown. Early life Thomas was born in Panama to Afro-Caribbean parents. His father, a pharmacist, was from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Vincent and his mother, Luzmilda, a community activist, was Jamaican peoples, Jamaican, born in Costa Rica. Her sister Sadie Clemencia Dolphy was the mother of musician Eric Dolphy."Eric Dolphy; A Musical Biography", Vladimir Simosko, 1996, Da Capo Press; https://vimeo.com/12369541 As a child in NYC, he attended Duke Ellington Elementary School (P.S. 140;) Edgar D. Shimer Junior High School (P.S. 142;) and Andrew Jackson High School (Queens, New York), Andrew Jackson High School. Thomas was a graduate of Queens College in New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet. Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting in complex improvisation often involving tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms. His technique has been compared to percussion. Referring to the number of keys on a standard piano, Val Wilmer used the phrase "eighty-eight tuned drums" to describe Taylor's style. He has been referred to as " Art Tatum with contemporary-classical leanings". Early life and education Cecil Percival Taylor was born on March 25, 1929, in Long Island City, Queens, and raised in Corona, Queens. Ratliff, Ben (May 3, 2012)"Lessons From the Dean of the School of Improv" ''The New York Times''. Retrieved December 9, 2017: "I recently spoke with the 83-year-old improvising pianist Cecil Taylor for about five hours over two days. One day was at his three-story home in For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz. Biography Early life Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began playing banjo with his father, then studied piano and saxophone while attending high school in Germantown. He studied drama at Goddard College from 1955 to 1959. He played in a Latin jazz band for a short time before joining the band of avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor. In 1962, he performed with trumpeter Bill Dixon at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki, Finland. Shepp's first recording under his own name, ''Archie Shepp - Bill Dixon Quartet'', was released on Savoy Records in 1963 and features a composition by Ornette Coleman. Along with alto saxophonist John Tchicai and trumpeter Don Cherry (trumpeter), Don Cherry, he formed the New York Contemporary Five. John Coltran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher known for his Satire, satirical works challenging American political culture. Perhaps his best-known work is ''Mumbo Jumbo (novel), Mumbo Jumbo'' (1972), a sprawling and unorthodox novel set in 1920s New York. Reed's work represents neglected African and African-American perspectives. Early life, family and college drop out Reed was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His family moved to Buffalo, New York, when he was a child, during the Great Migration (African American), Great Migration. After attending local schools, Reed attended the University at Buffalo. He withdrew from college in his junior year, partly for financial reasons, but mainly because he felt he needed a new atmosphere to support his writing and music. He said of this decision, "This was the best thing that could have happened to me at the time because I was able to continue e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennox Raphael
Lennox Raphael (born September 17, 1939, in Trinidad, West Indies) is a journalist, poet, and playwright. His writings have been published in ''Negro Digest'', ''American Dialog'', ''New Black Poetry'', ''Natural Process'' and ''Freedomways''. A long-time resident of New York City, Raphael currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. Biography Raphael worked as a reporter in Jamaica before first coming to the United States as a U.N. correspondent. He also became a staff writer for the underground newspaper the ''East Village Other'', and an editor of ''Umbra'', a poetry journal based in New York. In 1969 Raphael worked as a writer in the schools with the Teachers & Writers Collaborative at P.S. 26 in Brooklyn, New York. Journalism In his journalism Raphael has explored the relationship between black West Indian immigrants to the United States and the longer established African-American community. He points out that, in the 1960s, although there was a need for West Indian immigrants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Pritchard (poet)
Norman Henry Pritchard (October 22, 1939 – February 8, 1996),Aldon Lynn Nielsen, ''Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism'' Cambridge University Press, pp. 130-133, 136. was an American poet. He was a member of the , a collective of Black writers in Manhattan's Lower East Side founded in 1962. Pritchard's poetry often includes unconventional typography and spacing, as in "Harbour," or lack sentences entirely, as in " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin C
Calvin may refer to: Names * Calvin (given name) ** Particularly Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States * Calvin (surname) ** Particularly John Calvin, theologian Places In the United States * Calvin, Arkansas, a hamlet * Calvin Township, Jewell County, Kansas * Calvin, Louisiana, a village * Calvin Township, Michigan ** Calvin crater, an impact crater * Calvin, North Dakota, a city * Calvin, Oklahoma, a town * Calvin, Virginia * Calvin, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Elsewhere * Calvin, Ontario, Canada, a township * Mount Calvin, Victoria Land, Antarctica Schools * Calvin University (South Korea), a Presbyterian-affiliated university in South Korea * Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan * Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan * Calvin High School (other), various American schools * Calvin Christian School (Escondido, California) * Calvin Christian School (Kingston, Tasmania) * Collège Calvin, the oldest pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dent (writer)
Thomas Covington Dent (March 20, 1932 – June 6, 1998) was an African-American poet and writer. Dent came from a prominent and socially aware family. Due to this, he was able to receive multiple levels of education at differing institutions. He attended college at Morehouse College and served as editor-in-chief of the college newspaper, ''The Maroon Tiger''. Upon graduation, Dent enrolled in graduate studies at Syracuse University, before joining the army for a two-year stint. He then moved to New York and worked towards the advancement of civil rights. Later, he returned home to New Orleans and began cultivating and mentoring young African-American writers. Early life and education Thomas Dent was born on March 20, 1932, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Albert W. Dent, president of Dillard University, and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent, a concert pianist. He was the oldest of three sons. Although his mother and father were prominent societal members, they were not the only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Cannon (writer)
Steve Cannon (April 10, 1935 – July 7, 2019) was an American writer and the founder of the cultural organization A Gathering of the Tribes (Cultural Organization), A Gathering of the Tribes. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and moved to New York City in 1962. Early life Cannon was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and moved to New York City in 1962. Career During the civil rights era, he was a member of the Umbra (poets), Society of Umbra, a collective of Black writers. Cannon taught humanities at Medgar Evers College, helping to integrate the public school system in New York City. In 1969, Cannon penned the novel ''Groove, Bang, and Jive Around'', which author Ishmael Reed called the precursor to rap and author Darius James called in the New York Press, "an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York's black cognoscenti have transformed the work into an urban myth." Cannon, along with Joe Johnson (poet), Joe Johnson and Ishmael Reed, began an independ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Hernandez Cruz
The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French short film * ''Victor'' (2008 film), a TV film about Canadian swimmer Victor Davis * ''Victor'' (2009 film), a French comedy * ''Victor'', a 2017 film about Victor Torres by Brandon Dickerson * ''Viktor'' (2014 film), a Franco/Russian film * ''Viktor'' (2024 film), a documentary of a deaf person's perspective during Russian invasion of Ukraine Music * ''Victor'' (Alex Lifeson album), a 1996 album by Alex Lifeson * ''Victor'' (Vic Mensa album), 2023 album by Vic Mensa * "Victor", a song from the 1979 album ''Eat to the Beat'' by Blondie Businesses * Victor Talking Machine Company, early 20th century American recording company, forerunner of RCA Records * Victor Company of Japan, usually known as JVC, a Japanese electronics corporation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
