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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778186603321

Autore

Saul Scott

Titolo

Freedom is, freedom ain't [[electronic resource] ] : jazz and the making of the sixties / / Scott Saul

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-674-04310-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 394 p. ) : ill., ports

Disciplina

781.65097309046

Soggetti

Jazz - 1961-1970 - History and criticism

Jazz - 1951-1960 - History and criticism

Jazz - Social aspects - United States

Music

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Music History & Criticism, Popular - Jazz, Rock, etc

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Hard Bop and the Impulse to Freedom -- PART ONE. A New Intellectual Vernacular -- 1 Birth of the Cool: The Early Career of the Hipster -- 2 Radicalism by Another Name: The White Negro Meets the Black Negro -- PART TWO. Redefining Youth Culture -- 3 Riot on a Summer’s Day: White Youth and the Rise of the Jazz Festival -- 4 The Riot in Reverse: The Newport Rebels, Langston Hughes, and the Mockery of Freedom -- PART THREE. The Sound of Struggle -- 5 Outrageous Freedom: Charles Mingus and the Invention of the Jazz Workshop -- 6 “This Freedom’s Slave Cries”: Listening to the Jazz Workshop -- PART FOUR. Freedom’s Saint -- 7 The Serious Side of Hard Bop: John Coltrane’s Early Dramas of Deliverance -- 8 Loving A Love Supreme: Coltrane, Malcolm, and the Revolution of the Psyche -- PART FIVE. In and Out of the Whirlwind -- 9 “Love, Like Jazz, Is a Four Letter Word”: Jazz and the Counterculture -- 10 The Road to “Soul Power”: The Many Ends of Hard Bop -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

This text tells the story of the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties - 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.