Soundtrack to a movement : African American Islam, jazz, and black internationalism / Richard Brent Turner.
"This book explores the historical connections among jazz, African American Islam, and black internationalism from the 1940s to the 1970s. It shows that in the post-World War II era through the 1970s, the social justice values that Islam and jazz shared were key to the growth of African America...
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New York University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Jazz brothers in rhythm and spirit
- Islamic and Christian influences in jazz : Boston and New York during World War II
- "Turn to Allah, pray to the East" : Bebop and the Nation of Islam's mission to blacks in prison
- The faith of Universal Brotherhood : The Ahmadiyya Muslim community's popularity among Bebop musicians
- 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.