{"id":49830,"date":"2019-07-08T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=49830"},"modified":"2019-07-06T13:13:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T17:13:32","slug":"legendary-black-arts-movement-author-horace-mungin-celebrates-50-year-career-anniversary-with-re-release-of-10-literary-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/legendary-black-arts-movement-author-horace-mungin-celebrates-50-year-career-anniversary-with-re-release-of-10-literary-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Black Arts Movement Author Horace Mungin Celebrates 50 Year Career Anniversary with Re-Release of 10 Literary Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

RIDGEVILLE, S.C., July 8, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — It was 1968 when literary giant Horace Mungin penned his first published work, \u201cDope Hustler\u2019s Jazz,\u201d part one of a two volume set of anti-drug poetry. \u201cDope Hustler\u2019s Jazz\u201d was the beginning of a writing career that started in the Black Arts Movement and would extend over five decades of literary contributions. Horace Mungin Books is celebrating 50 years of intellectual success with the re-release of ten books, written between 1968 through to 2018 – including his latest, \u201cSwing, Hard Bop, Bop & Bebop.\u201d The full collection of Mungin\u2019s work provides a distinct and insightful perspective into the heart of African American culture and world views.<\/p>\n

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\nMungin\u2019s full collection includes a dozen titles: \u201cDope Hustler\u2019s Jazz\u201d 1968; \u201cNow, See Here Homes\u201d 1969; \u201cHow Many N**** Make Half a Dozen\u201d 1970; \u201cSleepy Willie Talks About Life\u201d 1991; \u201cSleepy Willie Sings the Blues\u201d 2001; \u201cSan Juan Hill\u201d 2006; \u201cSubway: After the Irish\u201d 2008, \u201cPoetic Portraits: The African People of San Juan Hill\u201d 2010; \u201cA Different Point of View\u201d 2013; \u201cThe Devil Beats His Wife\u201d 2013; \u201cTruth & Absurdities: Social and Political Commentary\u201d 2014; \u201cOr Does It Explode\u201d 2016 and \u201cSwing, Hard Bop, Bop & Bebop\u201d 2018. The author is offering a free shipping special on autographed copies purchased directly at Horace Mungin Books<\/a> and all titles are available in paperback and eBook at Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my hope that the re-release of my past works incites, instigates and awakens a deep yearning for true freedom that I feel is lost with today\u2019s hustle and bustle,\u201d expresses Mungin, a former New Yorker now living in Ridgeville, SC in the Charleston, Lowcountry area. \u201cI consider my books, whether poetry or prose, lyrical Afrocentricity. I have always given voice to the oppressed, providing what I consider a liberation patois where freedom is the goal. My books are written in that universal dialect which is the weapon of the powerless that annuls one\u2019s ability to feign ignorance. These books were written to satisfy the desire for an indisputable African American presence and greater knowledge of that existence in literature and in American life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ten re-released titles traverse timelines, characters and plots. In 1980, Mungin started a syndicated column called \u201cSleepy Willie.\u201d These columns gave birth to two Sleepy Willie books.\u00a0Sleepy Willie, the protagonist in both \u201cSleepy Willie Talks About Life\u201d and \u201cSleepy Willie Sings the Blues\u201d is a seemingly whimsical old man whose wisdom derives by way of his longevity and experience.<\/p>\n

Mungin\u2019s works range from the African American transformation of the New York City Transit work force in the 1960\u2019s in \u201cSubway: After the Irish,\u201d to the fictional \u201c\u2026Or Does It Explode\u201d, a cautionary look at where injustice could lead Black Americans. On the other hand, \u201cThe Devil Beats His Wife\u201d is a series of shorts set in the New South, chronicling the first and second generation of black and white people pushing against old racial barriers as they establish the new norm in attitudes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSan Juan Hill\u201d presents the coming-of-age memoir of a young boy growing up in the Amsterdam projects in mid-town Manhattan during the 1950\u2019s on the crest of the Civil Right Movement. With \u201cTruth & Absurdities,\u201d Mungin presents essays that chronicle his family history in South Carolina and New York City while intertwining defense of the Barack Obama presidency.<\/p>\n

A companion book to \u201cSan Juan Hill,\u201d \u201cPoetic Portrait: The African People of San Juan Hill,\u201d provides sketches of the author\u2019s neighbors who lived in the Lincoln Square community, from the famed Thelonious Monk to William Walker, the prototype for Sleepy Willie. \u201cA Different Point of View\u201d presents fifty years of Mungin\u2019s Black Liberation era poetry arranged in a manner that allows the reader to trace racial progress from the 1960\u2019s to 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cSwing, Hard Bop, Bop & Bebop,\u201d Mungin\u2019s most recent title, and the pinnacle of his vast library of work, is a celebration of the bebop era of jazz music with a collection of biographical prose and poetry, exploring over 60 of the greatest jazz artists of swing and bebop music ever assembled. The Music Department at Allen University, in Columbia, SC, produced \u201cManteca\u201d a Bebop Jazz Revue based on the book! Mungin\u2019s magazine, Black Forum which he started in 1970 and published for twelve years, is also part of a permanent exhibition at the National Museum for African\u00a0American History and Culture about the Black Arts Movement.<\/p>\n

Mungin\u2019s vast catalogue of writing paints a vivid scenario of Black life in America spanning several decades. Get educated and inspired by reading along at http:\/\/www.horacemunginbooks.com\/<\/a> ( http:\/\/www.horacemunginbooks.com\/shop\/<\/a>) and at Amazon.com<\/a> (https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=horace+mungin&ref=nb_sb_noss_1<\/a>) .<\/p>\n

Watch the Horace Mungin Books’ trailer at (YouTube): https:\/\/youtu.be\/-5vLNjiPZPM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Media Contact:
\nMakeda Smith
\njazzmyne public relations
\nmakeda@jazzmynepr.com
\nPhone Number: 323-380-8819<\/p>\n