Abstract
In this study, I examine the conceptions of jazz and negritude by the Martinican philosopher Frantz Fanon and the Afro-American writer Amiri Baraka. For this, I mobilize data in the pertinent bibliography, in relevant academic works and in biographical studies, having as a theoretical-methodological contribution the notion of Black Atlantic (GILROY, 2001 [1993]) and also the support of Bourdieu (2004; 2015 [1974]) and Koselleck (1992; 2006 [1979]), in order to analyze the contexts of each author for the formulation of their notions of jazz and blackness, paying attention to the flows and ebbs in their intellectual trajectories and also the dialogues they established with their peers. In this dialogue, I problematize the relationship between Black Music and black identity, highlighting the political and aesthetic-ideological disputes around the definition of the notion of blackness in the Atlantic.
Keywords
Frantz Fanon; Amiri Baraka; blackness; jazz; Black Music