The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution
EditorAmiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones), Larry Neal, and A. B. Spellman
CategoriesMusic magazine
Founded1968
Final issue1969
CompanyDrum Publications Ltd
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City
LanguageEnglish
WebsiteThe Cricket

The Cricket, subtitled "Black Music in Evolution", was a magazine created in 1968 by Amiri Baraka (then known as 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]

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

  1. ^ 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 978-0-8223-5478-9. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  2. ^ Aaron Winslow, "Amiri Baraka Interview", The Argotist Online.
  3. ^ "The Cricket". Chimurenga Library. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  4. ^ Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, George Lipsitz, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation, Duke University Press, 2013, p. 103.
  5. ^ "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).

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