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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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 9 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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