TY - GEN T1 - Monument eternal : the music of Alice Coltrane T2 - Music/culture. A1 - Berkman, Franya J. LA - English PP - Middletown PB - Wesleyan University Press YR - 2010 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn726747140 AB - "Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she synthesized a wide range of musical genres including gospel, rhythm-and-blues, bebop, free jazz, Indian devotional song, and Western art music. Her childhood experiences playing for African-American congregations in Detroit, the ecstatic and avant-garde improvisations she performed on the bandstand with her husband John Coltrane, and her religious pilgrimages to India reveal themselves on more than twenty albums of original music for the Impulse and Warner Brothers labels. In the late 1970s Alice Coltrane became a swami, directing an alternative spiritual community in Southern California. Exploring her transformation from Alice McLeod, Detroit church pianist and bebopper, to guru Swami Turiya Sangitananda, Monument Eternal illuminates her music and, in turn, reveals the exceptional fluidity of American religious practices in the second half of the twentieth century. Most of all, this book celebrates the hybrid music of an exceptional, boundary-crossing African-American artist." -- OP - 137 NO - Ebook Edition Note: All images in center photo section have been redacted. CN - ML417.C746 B47 2010eb SN - 9780819571069 SN - 0819571067 SN - 1283109751 SN - 9781283109758 SN - 9786613109750 SN - 6613109754 SN - 9780819569240 SN - 0819569240 SN - 9780819569257 SN - 0819569259 KW - Coltrane-Turiyasangitananda, A. : (Alice) KW - Coltrane-Turiyasangitananda, Alice : 1937-2007 KW - Pianists : United States : Biography. KW - Spiritual life : Hinduism. KW - Pianistes : EĢtats-Unis : Biographies. KW - Vie spirituelle : Hindouisme. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Composers & Musicians. KW - MUSIC : Musical Instruments : Piano & Keyboard. KW - Pianists KW - Spiritual life : Hinduism KW - United States KW - Musik KW - Biography KW - Biographies KW - Biographies. ER -