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Freedom sounds : civil rights call out to jazz and Africa
Title
Freedom sounds : civil rights call out to jazz and Africa / Ingrid Monson.
ISBN
9780195128253 (alk. paper)
0195128257 (alk. paper)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Physical Description
xi, 402 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 29, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-380) and index.
"Interviews, archival sources, and recordings": p. 325-330.
Contents
Jim Crow, economics, and the politics of musicianship
Modernism, race, and aesthetics
Africa, the Cold War, and the diaspora at home
Activism and fund-raising from Freedom now to the freedom rides
Activism and fund-raising from Birmingham to Black power
The debate within: White backlash, the new thing, and economics
Aesthetic agency, self-determination, and the spiritual quest
Coda.
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