Africa Speaks, America Answers : : Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times / / Robin D. G. Kelley.
In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. Th...
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Kelley, Robin D. G., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Africa Speaks, America Answers : Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times / Robin D. G. Kelley. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (272 p.) : 9 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prelude -- 1. The Drum Wars of Guy Warren -- 2. The Sojourns of Randy Weston -- 3. Ahmed Abdul-Malik's Islamic Experimentalism -- 4. The Making of Sathima Bea Benjamin -- Coda -- Notes -- Further Listening -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950s and '60s who forged connections between jazz and Africa that definitively reshaped both their music and the world.Each artist identified in particular ways with Africa's struggle for liberation and made music dedicated to, or inspired by, demands for independence and self-determination. That music was the wild, boundary-breaking exultation of modern jazz. The result was an abundance of conversation, collaboration, and tension between African and African American musicians during the era of decolonization. This collective biography demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered politics and culture on both continents.In a crucial moment when freedom electrified the African diaspora, these black artists sought one another out to create new modes of expression. Documenting individuals and places, from Lagos to Chicago, from New York to Cape Town, Robin Kelley gives us a meditation on modernity: we see innovation not as an imposition from the West but rather as indigenous, multilingual, and messy, the result of innumerable exchanges across a breadth of cultures. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012 9783110288995 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY; POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2012 9783110293715 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2012 9783110288971 ZDB-23-DPS Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674046245 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065246 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674065246 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674065246.jpg |
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