About this title: In the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's "Freedom Now Suite", John Coltrane's " A Love Supreme" and Charles Mingus's "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady" was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement and the counterculture. This book tells the broader story of this period in jazz - and American - history. The story's central figures are jazz musicians like Coltrane and Mingus, who ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780674018532ISBN:0674018532
Description: New. Capturing the social resonance of the music's marriage of discipline and play, the book conveys the artistic and historical significance of the jazz culture at the start, and the heart, of the sixties. read more
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