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“Jazz and the White Critic”: essential thinking on jazz and criticism generally. nothing is wasted here. this is some of baraka’s most clear-eyed writing, and his trademark sharpness is deployed to thrilling ends (see: “that junk pile of admirable objects and data the West knows as culture”). the P on “reverse snobbery” is as enlightening as anything ive ever read in my life. immediately indispensable