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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saul, Scott.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 394 p. ) ill., ports.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text tells the story of the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties - 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Hard Bop and the Impulse to Freedom

PART ONE. 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

PART TWO. 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

PART THREE. 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

PART FOUR. 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

PART FIVE. 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

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-375) and index.

ISBN:

9780674043107

0674043103

OCLC:

1262307809