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Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
Robin D. G. Kelley
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Hardback. This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and culture of both continents. Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 422.
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. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950s and '60s who forged connections between jazz and Africa that definitively reshaped both their music and the world. Each artist identified in particular ways with Africa's struggle for liberation and made music dedicated to, or inspired by, demands for independence and self-determination. That music was the wild, boundary-breaking ... Read more
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. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950s and '60s who forged connections between jazz and Africa that definitively reshaped both their music and the world. Each artist identified in particular ways with Africa's struggle for liberation and made music dedicated to, or inspired by, demands for independence and self-determination. That music was the wild, boundary-breaking ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Series
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674046245
SKU
V9780674046245
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About Robin D. G. Kelley
Robin D. G. Kelley is Gary B. Nash Chair of U.S. History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reviews for Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
Continually surprising.
Peter Monaghan Chronicle of Higher Education 20120219
Peter Monaghan Chronicle of Higher Education 20120219