Ingrid Monson

Freedom Sounds

Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Freedom Sounds addresses the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, and develops a new framework for thinking through the relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism by carefully addressing the hot button racial and economic issues that generated contentious and soul-searching debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 631g
• ISBN-13: 9780199757091
• ISBN-10: 0199757097
• Artikelnr.: 31805222

Autorenporträt

Ingrid Monson is the Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Supported by the Time Warner Endowment at Harvard University where she holds a joint appointment in the departments of Music and African and African American Studies. Her research interests include jazz, African American music, and the music of Mali.

Inhaltsangabe

1.: Introduction
2.: Jim Crow, Economics, and the Politics of Musicianship
3.: Modernism, Race, and Aesthetics
4.: Africa, The Cold War and the Diaspora at Home
5.: Activism and Fundraising from Freedom Now to the Freedom Rides
6.: Activism and Fundraising from Birmingham to Black Power
7.: The Debate Within: White Backlash, The New Thing, and Economics
8.: Aesthetic Agency and Self-Determination
9.: Coda