FINALIST for the 2022 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts
Certificate of Merit, Best Historical Research on Recorded Jazz, given by the 2022 Association for Recorded Sounds Collection Awards for Excellence in Historical Sound Research
Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberation
Amid the social change and liberation of the civil rights and Black Power movements, the tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded a tribute to Malcolm X’s emancipatory political consciousness. Shepp saw similarities between his revolutionary hero and John Coltrane, one of the most influential jazz musicians of the era. Later, the esteemed trumpeter Miles Davis echoed Shepp’s sentiment, recognizing that Coltrane’s music represented the very passion, rage, rebellion, and love that Malcolm X preached.
Soundtrack to a Movement examines the link between the revolutionary Black Islam of the post-WWII generation and jazz music. It argues that from the late 1940s and ’50s though the 1970s, Islam rose in prominence among African Americans in part because of the embrace of the religion among jazz musicians. The book demonstrates that the values that Islam and jazz shared—Black affirmation, freedom, and self-determination—were key to the growth of African American Islamic communities, and 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 and jazz styles.
Soundtrack to a Movement demonstrates how by expressing their values through the rejection of systemic racism, the construction of Black notions of masculinity and femininity, and the development of an African American religious internationalism, both jazz musicians and Black Muslims engaged with a global Black consciousness and interconnected resistance movements in the African diaspora and Africa.
"A book that breaks new ground in jazz studies [...] In examining the links between African Americans, Islam, jazz and internationalism, Turner covers a lot of fertile ground [...] Soundtrack to a Movement is a sweeping though incisive history." - All About Jazz
"Clearly written and carefully researched, Soundtrack to a Movementestablishes the critical role of Islam within the expressive cultures of Black internationalist freedom struggles of the twentieth century, an area that deserves far more attention in the literature on Islam in the USA, as well as the broader field of race and religion." - Sociology of Religion
"Clearly written and carefully researched, Soundtrack to a Movement establishes the critical role of Islam within the expressive cultures of Black internationalist freedom struggles of the twentieth century, an area that deserves far more attention in the literature on Islam in the USA, as well as the broader field of race and religion." - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
"There are interesting new revelations in every chapter of Soundtrack to a Movement…Scholarly and popular readers alike will find much to engage with and discuss in Turner’s pathbreaking book." - Journal of American History
"Soundtrack to a Movement is an engaging and well-rounded book that is a must read for anyone who is interested in how jazz became one of the most important sounds in the struggle for Black liberation and how Islam became one of the religions of that movement." - American Religion
"A pathbreaking study that traces the importance of Islam in the development of bebop jazz and recognizes the role of African American musicians in the development of bebop and African American Islam." - American Historical Review
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Certificate of Merit, Best Historical Research on Recorded Jazz, given by the 2022 Association for Recorded Sounds Collection Awards for Excellence in Historical Sound Research
Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberation
Amid the social change and liberation of the civil rights and Black Power movements, the tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded a tribute to Malcolm X’s emancipatory political consciousness. Shepp saw similarities between his revolutionary hero and John Coltrane, one of the most influential jazz musicians of the era. Later, the esteemed trumpeter Miles Davis echoed Shepp’s sentiment, recognizing that Coltrane’s music represented the very passion, rage, rebellion, and love that Malcolm X preached.
Soundtrack to a Movement examines the link between the revolutionary Black Islam of the post-WWII generation and jazz music. It argues that from the late 1940s and ’50s though the 1970s, Islam rose in prominence among African Americans in part because of the embrace of the religion among jazz musicians. The book demonstrates that the values that Islam and jazz shared—Black affirmation, freedom, and self-determination—were key to the growth of African American Islamic communities, and 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 and jazz styles.
Soundtrack to a Movement demonstrates how by expressing their values through the rejection of systemic racism, the construction of Black notions of masculinity and femininity, and the development of an African American religious internationalism, both jazz musicians and Black Muslims engaged with a global Black consciousness and interconnected resistance movements in the African diaspora and Africa.
"A book that breaks new ground in jazz studies [...] In examining the links between African Americans, Islam, jazz and internationalism, Turner covers a lot of fertile ground [...] Soundtrack to a Movement is a sweeping though incisive history." - All About Jazz
"Clearly written and carefully researched, Soundtrack to a Movementestablishes the critical role of Islam within the expressive cultures of Black internationalist freedom struggles of the twentieth century, an area that deserves far more attention in the literature on Islam in the USA, as well as the broader field of race and religion." - Sociology of Religion
"Clearly written and carefully researched, Soundtrack to a Movement establishes the critical role of Islam within the expressive cultures of Black internationalist freedom struggles of the twentieth century, an area that deserves far more attention in the literature on Islam in the USA, as well as the broader field of race and religion." - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
"There are interesting new revelations in every chapter of Soundtrack to a Movement…Scholarly and popular readers alike will find much to engage with and discuss in Turner’s pathbreaking book." - Journal of American History
"Soundtrack to a Movement is an engaging and well-rounded book that is a must read for anyone who is interested in how jazz became one of the most important sounds in the struggle for Black liberation and how Islam became one of the religions of that movement." - American Religion
"A pathbreaking study that traces the importance of Islam in the development of bebop jazz and recognizes the role of African American musicians in the development of bebop and African American Islam." - American Historical Review
Формат: Скан PDf
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