Duke Ellington Was Not A Street by Ntozake Shange

The text of this picture book for children is an ode to the author's family home and the exciting historic men who gathered there including W. E. B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, Dizzy Gillispie and Duke Ellington. Taken from Shange's 1983 poem "Mood Indigo," the words here recall, from a child's perspective, what it was like to listen "in the company of men / politics as necessary as collards / music even in our dreams." Adapted for Brooklyn Blowback TV by David Kay, MLS. Read by Just Bill from Paranoid Larry's Imaginary Band.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Ntozake
• Shange's
• ode
• to
• jazz
• legends

[danielmorejon413]

Nice

[charlottepoet]

i like the idea of reading a children's book and showing the illustration but got to say the ending was strange.