Soundtrack to a movement : African American Islam, jazz, and Black internationalism / Richard Brent Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Richard Brent, author.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Jazz.

Jazz--Religious aspects--Islam--History--20th century.

African American Muslims.

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

Internationalism--History--20th century.

Internationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Jazz Brothers in Rhythm and Spirit

1. Islamic and Christian Influences in Jazz: Boston and New York during World War II

2. "Turn to Allah, Pray to the East": Bebop and the Nation of Islam's Mission to Blacks in Prison

3. The Faith of Universal Brotherhood: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's Popularity among Bebop Musicians

4. 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

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-4969-3

OCLC:

1200832847