Soundtrack to a Movement : : African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism

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Call Number: 781.65 Tu, Black Studies 781.65 Tu
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Introduction : Jazz brothers in rhythm and spirit -- Islamic and Christian influences in jazz : Boston and New York during World War II -- "Turn to Allah, pray to the East" : Bebop and the Nation of Islam's mission to Blacks in prison -- The faith of Universal Brotherhood : The Ahmadiyya Muslim community's popularity among Bebop musicians -- 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.
"This book explores the historical connections among jazz, African American Islam, and black internationalism from the 1940s to the 1970s. It shows that in the post-World War II era through the 1970s, the social justice values that Islam and jazz shared were key to the growth of African American Islamic communities in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. This book argues that it was jazz musicians who led the way in shaping encounters with Islam as they developed a black-Atlantic cool that shaped both black religion, jazz styles, and black masculinity and femininity during the Cold War and continuing up to the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the 1960s"-- Provided by publisher

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