Амири Барака

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1934

Active to

2014

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

5,160

Total plays

27,745

Amiri Baraka is an influential American poet, dramatist and music critic. Known for his outspoken political activism, he may be best remembered for his controversial tenure as Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Important writings include Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961) and Blues People: Negro Music in White America (1963), which remains one of the most influential volumes of jazz criticism. Baraka's website is http://www.amiribaraka.com/. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Amiri+Bara

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

Works

47

Cited by

2,078

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,320x

2. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 7,708x

3. Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

   · 2024 · cited 4,083x

4. Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

   · 2023 · cited 3,736x

5. Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

   · 2024 · cited 2,306x

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Quotes

• “One of the most persistent traits of the Western white man has always been his fanatical and almost instinctive assumption that his systems and ideas about the world are the most desirable, and further that people who do not aspire to to them, or at least think them admirable, are savages or enemies. The idea that Western thought might be exotic if viewed from another landscape never presents itself to most Westerners.”
• “The Black Artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it. His role is to report and reflect so precisely the nature of the society, and of himself, in that society, that other men will be moved by the exactness of his rendering, and if they are black men, grow strong through this moving, having seen their own strength, and weakness, and if they are white men, tremble, curse, and go mad, because they will be drenched with the filth of their evil.”
• “When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher, but when I was saying, 'Black and white, unite and fight, destroy capitalism,' then you suddenly get to be unreasonable.”
• “A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.”

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Key facts

Born

Everett Leroy Jones , ( 1934-10-07 ) October 7, 1934, Newark, New Jersey , U.S.

Died

January 9, 2014 (2014-01-09) (aged 79), Newark, New Jersey, U.S.

Pen name

LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka

Occupation

Actor teacher theater director theater producer writer activist poet

Genres

Poetry and drama

Literary movement

Black Arts

Years active

1961–2014

Spouses

Hettie Cohen ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1964 ) ​ Sylvia Robinson ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1966 ) ​

Children

Kellie Jones , Lisa Jones , Dominique di Prima , Maria Jones, Shani Baraka, Obalaji Baraka, Ras J. Baraka , Ahi Baraka, Amiri Baraka Jr.

Allegiance

United States

Branch

United States Air Force

Service years

1954–1957

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.amiribaraka.com

Image

Amiri Baraka 2013.jpg

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