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Reel history [electronic resource] : the lost archive of Juma Sultan and the Aboriginal Music Society / Stephen Farina.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farina, Stephen.
- Series:
- Music:interview.
- Music : interview
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Percussionists--United States--Biography.
- Percussionists.
- Percussionists--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this engaging hybrid work--a blend of oral history and graphic novel--Stephen Farina finds ""Juma Sultan"" in a local phonebook. After an initial meeting at a roadside diner, Juma takes Steve and a fellow researcher to a decrepit barn, which, amazingly, contains a treasure trove of reel-to-reel audio tapes and 16mm films of jam sessions and jazz performances from the 1960's and 1970's. As the men go through the boxes and begin the painstaking process of preservation, Juma recalls the players, places, and time period when free jazz exploded then fused with the political momentum of the Civil R
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Search
- pt. 2. Found
- pt. 3. Lost.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-48781-X
- 9786613583048
- OCLC:
- 794180078
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