Freedom is, freedom ain't : jazz and the making of the sixties / Scott Saul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saul, Scott.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--1951-1960--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Jazz--1961-1970--History and criticism.

Bop (Music)--Influence.

Bop (Music).

Arts, American--20th century.

Arts, American.

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

African Americans--Music.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Music.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.

Summary:

"In the long decade between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the civil rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz - and American - history."--Jacket.

Contents:

Hard bop and the impulse to freedom

I: A new intellectual vernacular

1. Birth of the cool: the early career of the hipster

2. Radicalism by another name: the white Negro meets the black Negro

II: Redefining youth culture

3. Riot on a summer's day: white youth and the rise of the jazz festival

4. The riot in reverse: the Newport rebels, Langston Hughes, and the mockery of freedom

III: The sound of struggle

5. Outrageous freedom: Charles Mingus and the invention of the jazz workshop

6. "This freedom's slave cries": listening to the jazz workshop

IV: Freedom's saint

7. The serious side of hard bop: John Coltrane's early dramas of deliverance

8. Loving A love supreme: Coltrane, Malcolm, and the revolution of the psyche

V: In and out of the whirlwind

9. "Love, like jazz, is a four letter word": jazz and the counterculture

10. The road to "soul power": the many ends of hard bop.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

American Book Awards, Winner, 2004

נושא ישן: African Americans - Music - History and criticism.

נושא ישן: Arts, American - 20th century.

נושא ישן: Jazz - 1951-1960 - History and criticism.

נושא ישן: Jazz - 1961-1970 - History and criticism.

נושא ישן: Bop (music) - Influence.

ISBN:

0674011481

9780674011489

9780674018532

0674018532

OCLC:

52288707