Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka: An Annotated Discography

Jean-Philippe Marcoux is a professor of American Literature at Université Laval in Québec, Canada. He is the author of the monograph, Jazz Griots: Music and Historiography in the 1960s African American Poem. He has published in MELUS, Journal of Ethnic American Literature, Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, The Langston Hughes Review, College Language Association, and Canadian Poetry among others. He is currently working on a book-length study of the Umbra poets and workshops, which focuses on the literary production of the group, titled Interplay: The Poetics and Politics of the Society of Umbra. He is also the editor Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka, a collection of new essays from leading voices in the field, scheduled for publication in 2020 with Ohio State University Press.

Michael J. New is an assistant professor of English at Saint Anselm College, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and African American literature. His current book project, Instrumental Voices: Poetic Experiments in Jazz, focuses on writers like Amiri Baraka, Gil Scott-Heron, Jayne Cortez, and Sarah Webster Fabio, who collaborated with musicians during the Black Arts Movement. Past publications have examined American mythology and vernacular music, exploring the cultural history and literary treatment of folk-heroes like John Henry and Buddy Bolden.