Description
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Music. Borrowing from such sources as archival recordings and news stories, A HUNGER CALLED MUSIC documents the early history of African-American music beginning with work songs and ending with Motown-era soul. Using each genre's historical context and the music itself as inspiration, the poems in the chapbook take on a range of voices and stories from Robert Johnson to Nina Simone, and from a white 1950s record producer to a witness to police brutality. In doing so, the poems work to unearth the commonalities of experience between previous eras and the current one through the intergenerational constant of music.
Author Bio
Meredith Nnoka is a Smith College graduate with a degree in Africana Studies and English. Originally from Maryland, she is currently a graduate student in African-American literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her poetry has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, HEArt Online, Mandala Journal, and elsewhere. A HUNGER CALLED MUSIC, her first chapbook, was a winner of C&R Press's 2016 Winter Soup Bowl.
Author City: MADISON, WI USA