Soundtrack to a movement : African American Islam, jazz, and Black internationalism / Richard Brent Turner.
Amid 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 ja...
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| Language: | English |
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New York University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | NYU scholarship online.
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| Summary: | Amid 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, recognising that Coltrane's music represented the very passion, rage, rebellion, and love that Malcolm X preached. This book 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. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2021. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (247 pages) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479849697 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.18574/nyu/9781479871032.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record. |