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This book is a powerful exploration of African American music and poetry through the lens of history and criticism. The author, Tyehimba Jess, draws on his expertise in ethnic studies to provide a unique perspective on the topic. The book is illustrated and contains 256 pages of insightful analysis and critique. With a focus on American and African American music, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in the subject. The publication year is 2016 and the book is available in trade paperback format. The book's dimensions are 7.9 x 9.8 inches and it weighs 21 ounces. The book's topics include history and criticism, African American studies, and general ethnic studies.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWave Industries Books
ISBN-101940696208
ISBN-139781940696201
eBay Product ID (ePID)217050509
Product Key Features
Book TitleOlio
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory & Criticism, American / African American, General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2016
IllustratorYes
GenreMusic, Poetry, Social Science
AuthorTyehimba Jess
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width9.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-026171
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsEncyclopedic, ingenious, and abundant, this outsized second volume from Jess celebrates the works and lives of African-American musicians, artists, and orators who predated the Harlem Renaissance. -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review It''s been a decade since Tyehimba Jess''s debut, and this sprawling, extraordinary book shows he''s used his time well. --Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR This daring collection, which blends forthright, musically acute language with portraiture (e.g., poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Scott Joplin, and Booker T. Washington) to capture the African American experience from the Civil War to World War I. An impressive follow-up to leadbelly . --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal , Starred Review Olio is one of the most inventive, intensive poetic undertakings of the past decade...Through photos, drawings, interviews, foldouts, tables, facts, fictions, and yes, so many strong poems ... Olio assembles and raises the voices of an essential chorus: "Listen to how we sing while we/ promises unto ourselves not to die." -- Boston Globe The content of this book really is a remarkable one...Tyehimba Jess gathers the histories of the lives--untold lives of many of the African-American artists who sort of built the blues and jazz and the sound that...we consider quintessentially American. And he''s written these poems as history in a variety of voices, in a chorus. -- All Things Considered Once I closed these pages I came to the conclusion that Tyehimba is our Langston--not necessarily in terms of style or lyrical sensibility, but in terms of proficiency and historical impact. It is the rigor with which this book archives history, offers new narratives and context for the "characters" it contains that leads me to the conclusion that readers a century from now will count this among the treasures that are emblematic of this era. -- African Voices If you''ve been wanting to get into poetry but haven''t been willing to give up the power, characters, and length of a novel, Olio is the book for you. -- Lit Hub A tremendous, and tremendously accessible, book of poetry. -- Brooklyn Magazine I don''t want to overstate the case, but there is no way around it: Tyehimba Jess''s Olio is a tour de force. -- On the Seawall Tyehimba Jess''s second book, Olio , is a book without rules, blues on the page. It weaves new and reimagined facts with poetry, prose, and biographies of first-generation freed slaves who performed in minstrel shows. A spellbinding and lyrical melange of verse, Olio resembles its namesake--a minstrel show''s hodgepodge variety act that later evolved into Vaudeville, "the heart of American show business." -- Tupelo Quarterly Historical personae has long proven to be a useful protest tool against oppression, and is, for this reason, not new to African-American poetry. Olio , though, is so ambitious, so relentless in its pursuit of the antebellum realities that remade our country, with its entrance into the canon we are jolted awake by a hundred alarms, a century''s racket. -- Oxford American [T]he variety that Tyehimba Jess packs into Olio amply supports his goals of celebrating African-American musicial genius and bearing "wit-ness" (in the dual sense of affirming truth and acknowledging intelligence and agency) to "first generation freed voices," especially those of never recorded nineteenth-century artists. At 235 pages, Olio is so plentiful it is impossible to read in one sitting. Not only does its format invite browsing, but Jess encourages readers to "weave your own chosen way between the voices." -- Hudson Review This 21st century hymnal of black evolutionary poetry, this almanac, this theatrical melange of miraculous meta-memory. Tyehimba Jess is inventive, prophetic, wondrous. He writes unflinchingly into the historical clefs of blackface, black sound, human sensibility. After the last poem is read we have no idea how long we''ve been on our knees. --Nikky Finney, Encyclopedic, ingenious, and abundant, this outsized second volume from Jess celebrates the works and lives of African-American musicians, artists, and orators who predated the Harlem Renaissance. -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review It''s been a decade since Tyehimba Jess''s debut, and this sprawling, extraordinary book shows he''s used his time well. --Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR This daring collection, which blends forthright, musically acute language with portraiture (e.g., poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Scott Joplin, and Booker T. Washington) to capture the African American experience from the Civil War to World War I. An impressive follow-up to leadbelly . --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal , Starred Review Olio is one of the most inventive, intensive poetic undertakings of the past decade...Through photos, drawings, interviews, foldouts, tables, facts, fictions, and yes, so many strong poems ... Olio assembles and raises the voices of an essential chorus: "Listen to how we sing while we/ promises unto ourselves not to die." -- Boston Globe The content of this book really is a remarkable one...Tyehimba Jess gathers the histories of the lives--untold lives of many of the African-American artists who sort of built the blues and jazz and the sound that...we consider quintessentially American. And he''s written these poems as history in a variety of voices, in a chorus. -- All Things Considered Once I closed these pages I came to the conclusion that Tyehimba is our Langston--not necessarily in terms of style or lyrical sensibility, but in terms of proficiency and historical impact. It is the rigor with which this book archives history, offers new narratives and context for the "characters" it contains that leads me to the conclusion that readers a century from now will count this among the treasures that are emblematic of this era. -- African Voices If you've been wanting to get into poetry but haven't been willing to give up the power, characters, and length of a novel, Olio is the book for you. -- Lit Hub A tremendous, and tremendously accessible, book of poetry. -- Brooklyn Magazine I don''t want to overstate the case, but there is no way around it: Tyehimba Jess''s Olio is a tour de force. -- On the Seawall Tyehimba Jess's second book, Olio , is a book without rules, blues on the page. It weaves new and reimagined facts with poetry, prose, and biographies of first-generation freed slaves who performed in minstrel shows. A spellbinding and lyrical melange of verse, Olio resembles its namesake--a minstrel show's hodgepodge variety act that later evolved into Vaudeville, "the heart of American show business." -- Tupelo Quarterly Historical personae has long proven to be a useful protest tool against oppression, and is, for this reason, not new to African-American poetry. Olio , though, is so ambitious, so relentless in its pursuit of the antebellum realities that remade our country, with its entrance into the canon we are jolted awake by a hundred alarms, a century's racket. -- Oxford American [T]he variety that Tyehimba Jess packs into Olio amply supports his goals of celebrating African-American musicial genius and bearing "wit-ness" (in the dual sense of affirming truth and acknowledging intelligence and agency) to "first generation freed voices," especially those of never recorded nineteenth-century artists. At 235 pages, Olio is so plentiful it is impossible to read in one sitting. Not only does its format invite browsing, but Jess encourages readers to "weave your own chosen way between the voices." -- Hudson Review This 21st century hymnal of black evolutionary poetry, this almanac, this theatrical melange of miraculous meta-memory. Tyehimba Jess is inventive, prophetic, wondrous. He writes unflinchingly into the historical clefs of blackface, black sound, human sensibility. After the last poem is read we have no idea how long we''ve been on our knees. --Nikky Finney, Encyclopedic, ingenious, and abundant, this outsized second volume from Jess celebrates the works and lives of African-American musicians, artists, and orators who predated the Harlem Renaissance. -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review It's been a decade since Tyehimba Jess's debut, and this sprawling, extraordinary book shows he's used his time well. --Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR This daring collection, which blends forthright, musically acute language with portraiture (e.g., poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Scott Joplin, and Booker T. Washington) to capture the African American experience from the Civil War to World War I. An impressive follow-up to leadbelly . --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal This 21st century hymnal of black evolutionary poetry, this almanac, this theatrical melange of miraculous meta-memory. Tyehimba Jess is inventive, prophetic, wondrous. He writes unflinchingly into the historical clefs of blackface, black sound, human sensibility. After the last poem is read we have no idea how long we've been on our knees. --Nikky Finney, Encyclopedic, ingenious, and abundant, this outsized second volume from Jess celebrates the works and lives of African-American musicians, artists, and orators who predated the Harlem Renaissance. -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review It's been a decade since Tyehimba Jess's debut, and this sprawling, extraordinary book shows he's used his time well. --Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR This daring collection, which blends forthright, musically acute language with portraiture (e.g., poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Scott Joplin, and Booker T. Washington) to capture the African American experience from the Civil War to World War I. An impressive follow-up to leadbelly . --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal , Starred Review This 21st century hymnal of black evolutionary poetry, this almanac, this theatrical melange of miraculous meta-memory. Tyehimba Jess is inventive, prophetic, wondrous. He writes unflinchingly into the historical clefs of blackface, black sound, human sensibility. After the last poem is read we have no idea how long we've been on our knees. --Nikky Finney
Dewey Decimal811/.6
Table Of ContentIntroduction Jubilee Proclamation Submission to Crisis Magazine Jubilee Blues ******** Blind Tom plays for Confederate Troops, 1863 General James Bethune and John Bethune Introduce Blind Tom What Marked Tom? Mark Twain v. Blind Tom Blind Tom Plays for a Packed House, 1873 Millie McKoy & Christine McKoy Recall Meeting Blind Tom, 1877 What the Wind, Rain and Thunder Said to Tom General Bethune v. W.C. Handy, 1885 Charity on Blind Tom Eliza Bethune v. Charity Wiggins General Bethune on Blind Tom Duet: Blind Boone meets Blind Tom, 1889 Blind Tom plays on . . . One Body, Two Graves: Brooklyn/Georgia ******** Jubilee: Isaac Dickerson (1852-1900) Interview: Della Marie Jenkins Jubilee: Eliza Walker (1857-?) ******** Mille and Christine McKoy Millie-Christine On Display Millie-Christine Are Kidnapped Millie-Christine's Love Story Millie Christine Buy Land step right up . . . Millie Christine's Syncopated Star of Sonnets ******** Jubilee: Ben Holmes (1846-1875) Interview: Sam Patterson Jubilee: Minnie Tate (1857-?) ******** Mirror of Slavery/Mirror Chicanery Pre/face: Berryman/Brown Freedsong: Dream Gone Freedsong: Dream Dawn Freedsong: So Long! (Duet) Freed Song: Dream Long Freedsong: Of 1850 Freedsong: Dream Wronged Freedsong: Dream of My Son Freedsong: Dream Strong Freedsong: of 1876 Freedsong: Dream Song ******** Jubilee: George White (1838-1895) Interview: Blind Boone Jubilee: Maggie Porter (1853-1942) ******** Apparition in C Roots of Boone Apparition in E? Blind Boone's Blessing Apparition in F Blind Boone's Vision Apparitions in F? Blind Boone's Escape Apparition in G Blind Boone's Rage Apparition in B? Boone's Pianola Blues Apparition in C ******** Jubilee: Greene Evans (1848-1914) Interview: Carmen LeDieiux Jubilee: Ella Shepard (1853-1942) ******** Bert Williams/George Walker Paradox The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide All Coons Look Alike to Me! 1 Coons Songs Must Go!/ Coon Songs Go On . . . 1 All Coons Look Alike to Me! 2 Coons Songs Must Go!/ Coon Songs Go On . . . 2 All Coons Look Alike to Me! 3 Coons Songs Must Go!/ Coon Songs Go On . . . 3 Dunbar-Booker Double Shovel Table 2-3/Table2-5 ******** Jubilee: Thomas Rutling (1855?-1915) Interview: Lottie Joplin, Pt. 1 Jubilee: Jennie Jackson (1852-1910) ******** WPA Interview: E. Shoe My Name is Sissieretta Jones WPA Interview: E. Shoe O Patria Mia WPA Interview: E. Shoe ad libitum WPA Interview: E. Shoe forte/grazioso WPA Interview: E. Shoe ******** Jubilee: Indigo (Choral) Interview: Lottie Joplin, Pt. 2 Berlin v. Joplin: Alexander's Real Slow Drag Jubilee Mission ******** Alabaster Hands Forever Free Hagar in the Wilderness Hiawatha Dying Cleopatra Indian Combat Minnehaha Colonel Robert Gould Shaw Provenance We've sung each free day like it's salvation (choral) ******* Last Letter Home ****** Appendix Presenting: The Dunbar/Washington Double Shovel Presenting: The Bert Williams/George Walker Paradox Presenting: H. "Box" Brown Dream on . . . Duet Notes on Jubilee and Syncopated Sonnets The Trotter Interviews Timeline Bibliography Acknowledgments Thanks
SynopsisWith ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Jess presents the sweat and story behind America's blues, worksongs and church hymns., Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Winner of the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2017 Book Award from the Society of Midland Authors for Poetry 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for poetry 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award finalist 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award finalist Named a top poetry book of spring 2016 by Library Journal Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them. So, while I lead this choir, I still find that I'm being led...I'm a missionary mending my faith in the midst of this flock... I toil in their fields of praise. When folks see these freedmen stand and sing, they hear their God speak in tongues. These nine dark mouths sing shelter; they echo a hymn's haven from slavery's weather. Detroit native Tyehimba Jess ' first book of poetry, leadbelly , was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. Jess, a Cave Canem and NYU Alumni, has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Jess is also a veteran of the 2000 and 2001 Green Mill Poetry Slam Team. He exhibited his poetry at the 2011 TEDxNashville Conference. Jess is an Associate Professor of English at College of Staten Island.
LC Classification NumberPS3610.E874A6 2016
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