Freedom Sounds addresses the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, and develops a new framework for thinking through the relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism by carefully addressing the hot button racial and economic issues that generated contentious and soul-searching debate. INDICE: 1.: Introduction; 2.: Jim Crow, Economics, and the Politics of Musicianship; 3.: Modernism, Race, and Aesthetics; 4.: Africa, The Cold War and the Diaspora at Home; 5.: Activism and Fundraising from Freedom Now to the Freedom Rides; 6.: Activism and Fundraising from Birmingham to Black Power; 7.:The Debate Within: White Backlash, The New Thing, and Economics; 8.: Aesthetic Agency and Self-Determination; 9.: Coda
- ISBN: 978-0-19-975709-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 416
- Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés