(LITERATURE AND POETRY) JONES LEROI [aka] AMIRI BARAKA Leroi

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) JONES, LEROI [aka] AMIRI BARAKA. Leroi Jones Spirit House Movers and Players, the Theatre of Reality and Black Drama. Program, in tabloid newspaper format. 8 pages folio; paper evenly toned; crease where folded. Newark, NJ: Spirit House, 1967

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a fragile and thus scarce promotional piece from the earliest part of poet-activist amiri baraka's career. Leroi Jones' Spirit House Movers and Players was an important part of the evolution of the Black Arts movement. This 'program' is actually an approximate printing of the material that makes up the content of an evening's entertainment, created by Imamu Amear Baraka, as he was then known. Jones/Baraka together with Ron Karenga and others would stand and deliver the material in a declamatory manner, some of it almost a 'Rap.'