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	On Cortez's Poetry
		Cortez was able to discern the continuing relevance of Black Arts excesses because she was able to distinguish the potent stylistics from the paralyzing subject matter.
		But Jayne Cortez provides a literary link between the dignity and bitchiness of the earlier blues queens and the empowered voices of the later fl feminist poets because she was able to deploy excess without being silenced by it.
		Cortez also undercuts the notion of an academic theoretical hierarchy--as seen in her poem "There It Is," which serves as a perfect example of how she uses poetry as a space through which to filter notions of upheaval.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/cortez/poetry.htm (2016 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Cortez, Jayne
		Jayne Cortez was born in Fort Huachuca, Arizona and raised in Los Angeles.
		Cortez's excrescent language and her ability to push the acceptable limits of expression to address issues of race, sex, and homophobia place her in a category that few other women occupy.
		Cortez makes no mistake in her approach; she is constant and firm in her opposition to oppression, racism, and cultural marginality.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/cortez_jayne.html (1405 words)

	African American Review: All the Birds Sing Bass: The Revolutionary Blues of Jayne Cortez - Critical Essay
		Thus, in syncretizing different strands of blues, Cortez and the Firespitters demonstrate the artistic possibilities for cultural hybridity which, in turn, becomes a metaphor for her revisionary process as she merges sound and script, transforming the traditionally Western notion of literature through its subsumption of the blues matrix.
		When Cortez returns to her title phrase for the riff chorus, she simulates the rhythm of blues music by varying the pitch of her voice antiphonally, and she experiments with vowel sounds, elongating the /o/ sound in the repeated phrase let it blow to simulate the sounds of horn players.
		Cortez's dedication also constitutes an act of signifying (in the vernacular sense of that word) on many African Americans whose false consciousness is manifested in their vehement disapproval of any linguistic habits that deviate from the dominant culture.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_1_35/ai_74410614/pg_4 (1360 words)

	LiP \| Feature \| Firespitter
		The case that I want to make here is not only for Jayne Cortez as a dub poet because of her concern for what she calls “the poetic use of music,” but for dub poetry as a fully diasporic idiom.
		As Cortez has said of her friend, Leon Damas, who she called “the Red Pepper Poet”; with a “bullroarer tongue,” one could likewise say of her: “Damas was like his poems: quick, precise, sharp, ironic, intense, humorous, confrontational, nonconforming, on the edge, not for commercial use, and not for sale.
		However, as Cortez knows, because of her empathy with the Negritude poets, when dub poetry is constituted only of the African diasporic experience as seen through an Anglophone lens, whether Caribbean, North American or English, it neglects the diversity of its patrimony.
	www.lipmagazine.org /articles/featsakolsky_jaynecortez.htm (1923 words)

	African American Registry: Total expression . . . , Jayne Cortez!
		Cortez was born in Fort Huachuca, AZ and raised in Los Angeles.
		Cortez moved in New York City in 1967, where in 1972 she established her own publishing company, Bola Press.
		Cortez has taught and presented throughout the world over, her work has been translated into 28 different languages, and she has been published in well-known journals such as Presence Africaine, Black Scholar, Daughters of Africa and Mother Jones.
	www.aaregistry.com /detail.php3?id=2740 (442 words)

	Echo Online :: News :: Cortez McAndless Distinguished Professor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cortez was deeply interested in movies and majored in Art in high school, focusing on painting.
		Cortez says she is excited to be in Ypsilanti and eager to interact with students and young writers.
		Cortez has certainly cleared her own path, and fortunately for the EMU community, it allows for a brief stop in Ypsilanti.
	www.easternecho.com /cgi-bin/story.cgi?1077 (1078 words)

	New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America Chapter 15 -- Jayne Cortez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jayne Cortez was born in Huachuca, Arizona, later moving to Southern California.
		Cortez's poetry is intended to be read aloud, to capture the significance and rhythms of her use of repetitions and language.
		Her use of hard-sounding words, and words that are unmistakably direct and clear, capture the power of the situation she is describing.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/quashie/chapter15/custom1/deluxe-content.html (238 words)

	arborweb reviews - review: Jayne Cortez
		A couple of decades before anyone ever talked about performance poetry, long before the spread of poetry slams and their imitators, Jayne Cortez was creating a reputation for herself as a performer of her own poetry.
		She uses some of the devices we have come to expect in performance: she often rhymes, although her rhymes are subtle, often hidden within words; she repeats words and phrases to accent rhythm; she uses long catalogs of detail to add humor and verbal flourishes; and she uses parallel grammatical structures to build whole poems.
		Jayne Cortez performs with her band at EMU's McKenny Union Ballroom on Tuesday, November 18, and reads from her work at Shaman Drum Bookshop on Wednesday, November 19.
	www.arborweb.com /reviews/0311.cortez-review.html (389 words)

	57 Productions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'Cortez has been and continues to be an explorer, probing the valleys and chasms of human existence.
		'Jayne Cortez is an energy, a nourishment, a Black Nation song' Gwendolyn Brooks.
		Jayne Cortez will be in the U.K. for a short spell in Autumn, appearing with her band - The Firespitters and taking in selected solo dates.
	www.57productions.com /artists/art_cortez.shtml (70 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Jayne Cortez
		Poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez was born in 1936 in Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
		Cortez has also released a number of recordings, many with her band The Firespitters, including Taking the Blues Back Home (1997), Cheerful and Optimistic (1994), Everywhere Drums (1991), and Maintain Control (1986).
		Jayne Cortez has performed, lectured, and taught at many universities, museums, and festivals.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/464 (181 words)

	Lannan Foundation - Jayne Cortez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jayne Cortez was born in Arizona, raised in California, and resides in New York City.
		Described as a “womanist warrior poet,”; Cortez is the author of ten books of poetry and has performed her poetry with music on nine recordings.
		Her poetry ranges from the overtly political to streetwise and is delivered in a voice celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic, innovatively lyrical and visceral sound.
	www.lannan.org /lf/bios/detail/jayne-cortez (86 words)

	Jayne Cortez
		Jayne Cortez has performed, lectured, and taught at universities, museums, and festivals, including the Museum of Modern Art, UNESCO in Paris, the Berlin Jazz Festival, the Fourth World Congress on Women, and many others.
		These poems range from the overtly political, even didactic, to the streetwise sensuality of Cortez's better rhythmic, percussive efforts which, no less harsh and glaring, provide an unflinching glimpse at life's ugliness.
		This resilience animates Cortez's work and supports the unwavering, and compelling directness with which she confronts the world.
	authors.aalbc.com /jayne.htm (230 words)

	Watts: Art & Social Change in Los Angeles, 1965-2002 January 23 ? March 30, 2003 (Milwaukee, WI) In conjunction ...
		Priestly is the author of Abracadabra, a collection of poems that celebrate the variety and complexity of his life and of American culture as a whole over the last 30 years.
		She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and is a recipient of the International African Festival Award and the American Book Award.
		Cortez was the founder of the Watts Repertory Company in 1964.
	www.marquette.edu /haggerty/press/wattspress.html (2435 words)

	Jayne Cortez & the Firespitters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cortez reads her vitriolic poetry with high-intensity fire, and with a sharp feel for blues and jazz rhythms and tone colors.
		But what carries the day in this winning collection of her poems set to music is her band.
		Cortez is at her most trite and melodramatic when she offers tributes to old blues artists.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/10-17-96/OTR/JAYNE_CORTEZ.html (140 words)

	SFBG A and E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		People may theorize that the blues is poetry, but poet Jayne Cortez and her band, the Firespitters, make the connection audibly clear.
		Poems about storytelling guitars, Big Mama Thornton, and Dizzy Gillespie are talked, shouted, and scatted over dueling koras and a mixed bag of blues and jazz arrangements.
		But Cortez's expressive word-music is at its most lyrical when she strays furthest from the written word and gets lost in the ecstatic rush of oral freestyle.
	www.sfbg.com /AandE/30/48/082896mic.html (351 words)

	Poetry: LitLinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This page celebrates Cortez as a poet and a jazz artist and offers a brief biography and selected bibliography.
		Jayne Cortez was born in Arizona in 1936, grew up in the Watts section of Los Angeles, and now lives in New York City.
		A poet and performance artist, she has published several collections of poetry and made a number of recordings, often performing her poetry with the jazz group the Firespitters.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/cortez.htm (133 words)

	Poet: Jayne Cortez - All poems of Jayne Cortez
		Poet: Jayne Cortez - All poems of Jayne Cortez
		Jayne Cortez was born in Arizona, raised in California, and resides in New...
		Jayne Cortez performs with her band at EMU's McKenny Union Ballroom on Tuesday,...
	www.poemhunter.com /p/t/poet.asp?poet=18829 (189 words)

	University of Minnesota: Event Detail
		Jayne Cortez, New York, is the author of ten books of poems and has performed her poetry with music on nine recordings.
		Her voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, and dynamic innovations in lyricism and visceral sound.
		Jayne Cortez will perform a reading along with local poet Mark Nowak, College of St. Catherine.
	events.tc.umn.edu /event.xml?occurrence=387345 (98 words)

	Watts: Art & Social Changes in Los Angeles, 1965-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The exhibition will include works by Nathaniel Bustion, Jr., Dale Davis, Charles Dickson, John Outterbridge, Elliott Pinkney, and poets Johnie Scott, Eric Priestly and Jayne Cortez These artists helped transform the Watts community by addressing social issues through their art using the visual, literary and performing arts as a catalyst.
		John Outterbridge is known for working with discarded materials and objects from the “urban wastelands.” His Containment Series, created in response to the Watts riot of the late 1960s, provides a particularly poignant commentary on his environment.
		The poetry of Jayne Cortez will be featured in the exhibition.
	www.sacnewsmonthly.com /NEWS/JAN2003/2003JAN05.htm (1276 words)

	Stances, Trances, Romances
		Heaven is a place where the word-jazz of long-legendary poetess Jayne Cortez comes from.
		With over 10 books, eight sonic renditions of her poetry and a new CD, Talking the Blues Back Home (Harmolodic), Cortez has been compared to a beat Langston Hughes, a mean bluesy-ballsy Maya Angelou and a precursor to the new cool woman jive of Toni Morrison.
		Like Big Mama Thornton or Muhammad Ali, Jayne Cortez has got a word jag, that, like the finest of doo-wop singers, is only released by seeing the words course through a humid night's slight breeze, careening like a scream off a cloud.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/082996/article024.shtml (1105 words)

	Exoterica Poetry: The Dance of Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Prayers were set to music in the Middle Ages, the words of minstrels and troubadours were accompanied by music, poets read to bal-musette bands in the 19th century, and the intense interaction between jazz and poetry in the 20th century has been rich.
		U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Jimmy Santiago Baca, singer-songwriter Eric Andersen, Jayne Cortez, Patricia Smith, Sekou Sundiata, Jamaican dub legend Big Youth, Victor Hernandez Cruz, downtown legends Jim Carroll and Richard Hell, and Rumi translator and performance artist Shahram Shiva are just some of the artists who will be appearing.
		Over the past decade, hip-hop, the spoken word movement, and the continuing democratization of poetry have resulted in an inundation of recordings that attempt to marry poetry and music.
	www.exoterica.org /danceoflanguage.htm (1207 words)

	Press Releases
		Brooklyn, N.Y. –Two writers from across the globe African-American poet Jayne Cortez and anthology editor Zohra Saed of Afghanistan — will read from their works at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus in March, as part of the English Department’s "Voices of the Rainbow" reading series.
		The series brings authors of varying racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds to the Campus to offer a range of artistic expressions to students and the community.
		Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.
	www.brooklyn.liunet.edu /wn/2004/31.html (302 words)

	Search Results for cortez - Encyclopædia Britannica
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	www.britannica.com /search?query=cortez&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (419 words)

	All the Birds Sing Bass: The Revolutionary Blues of Jayne Cortez - Questia Online Library
		Although Jayne Cortez is one of the most popular poets in the United States, few critics have examined her work in detail.
		The neglect of Cortez's poetry reflects an indifference toward poetry generally and, more specifically, the Black Arts Movement which shaped her approach to writing.
		Despite the recent attention devoted to Sterling Brown, the vast majority of critics continues to focus upon various prose forms.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5000991940 (429 words)

	syllabus
		Jayne Cortez gives readings often accompanied by music from The Firespitters.
		Cortez's work comes out of the African-American traditions of jazz, social protest, and public performance.
		Leaving Another Kingdom is a collection of his poetry from five earlier books published between 1973-1987.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~engl387/page6.html (430 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Poetry In Motion (1982)
		The realm of spoken-word artists and poetry readings are often lampooned in modern culture as a kind of retro-beatnik social clique where bongo drums and thin, fl cigarettes are practically required entry fees.
		Occasionally interrupted by brief interview segments, Poetry In Motion is simply various clips of poets reading their work to either live audiences or just to the camera of director Ron Mann.
		While some of the poets are content to simply read their works, others mix them with music or combine them with performance aspects.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=3774 (1439 words)

	Democracy NOW! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Poet Jayne Cortez reads work at conference on women & war
		Cortez has also released a number of recordings, many with her band The Firespitters, including Taking the Blues Back Home (1997), Cheerful & Optimistic (1994), Everywhere Drums (1991), and Maintain Control (1986).
		She read her poetry at a recent conference on women and war in New York.
	archive.webactive.com /pacifica/demnow/dn20030501.html (1453 words)

	Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: C: Cortez, Jayne
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		Category for American poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez (born 1936).
		Jayne Cortez · cached · The Academy of American Poets presents a biography and links.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=703217 (44 words)

	New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America Chapter 15 -- Essay Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What broader cultural implications do the transformations have?
		Cortez uses strong language and images in her poetry, so strong that some readers might be offended.
		Respond to the choice Cortez has made to take that risk, and to what it means that readers would continue, or would, stop reading.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/quashie/chapter15/essay1/deluxe-content.html (89 words)

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