In The Break

Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora.  In the Break  is an extended riff on “The Burton Greene Affair,” exploring the tangled relationship between black avant-garde in music and literature