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Soundtrack to a Movement : African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism
Title
Soundtrack to a Movement : African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism / Richard Brent Turner.
ISBN
9781479849697
Publication
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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In English.
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Summary
Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberationAmid the social change and liberation of the civil rights and Black Power movements, the tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded a tribute to Malcolm X's emancipatory political consciousness. Shepp saw similarities between his revolutionary hero and John Coltrane, one of the most influential jazz musicians of the era. Later, the esteemed trumpeter Miles Davis echoed Shepp's sentiment, recognizing that Coltrane's music represented the very passion, rage, rebellion, and love that Malcolm X preached.Soundtrack to a Movement examines the link between the revolutionary Black Islam of the post-WWII generation and jazz music. It argues that from the late 1940s and '50s though the 1970s, Islam rose in prominence among African Americans in part because of the embrace of the religion among jazz musicians. The book demonstrates that the values that Islam and jazz shared-Black affirmation, freedom, and self-determination-were key to the growth of African American Islamic communities, and that it was jazz musicians who led the way in shaping encounters with Islam as they developed a Black Atlantic "cool" that shaped both Black religion and jazz styles. Soundtrack to a Movement demonstrates how by expressing their values through the rejection of systemic racism, the construction of Black notions of masculinity and femininity, and the development of an African American religious internationalism, both jazz musicians and Black Muslims engaged with a global Black consciousness and interconnected resistance movements in the African diaspora and Africa.
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Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Jazz Brothers in Rhythm and Spirit
1. Islamic and Christian Influences in Jazz: Boston and New York during World War II
2. "Turn to Allah, Pray to the East": Bebop and the Nation of Islam's Mission to Blacks in Prison
3. The Faith of Universal Brotherhood: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's Popularity among Bebop Musicians
4. Hard Bop, Free Jazz, and Islam: Black Liberation and Global Religious and Musical Consciousness in the Late 1950s and 1960s
Conclusion: Last Days and Times: Islam and Jazz in the Post- Coltrane Era
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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