Soundtrack to a movement : African American Islam, jazz, and black internationalism /
"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 America...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2021]
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2654412 |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (247 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479800360 1479800368 1479849693 9781479849697 9781479871032 1479871036 9781479806768 1479806765 |