Episode 23 | Anthony Reed on the Soundworks of Poetry & Music in the Black Arts Era

When you think of Langston Hughes, does Charles Mingus come immediately to mind? What music do you hear when you think of the words of Amiri Baraka?

Poetry and music have long commingled to produced provocative and innovative pairings in the Black Arts era. Vanderbilt University Professor Anthony Reed joins Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal to discuss his latest book, Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production published by Duke University Press.