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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966443803321
• Autore: Saul Scott
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 9780674043107; 0674043103
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 394 p. ) : ill., ports
• Disciplina: 781.65097309046
• Soggetti: Jazz - 1951-1960 - History and criticism; Jazz - 1961-1970 - History and criticism; Bop (Music) - Influence; Arts, American - 20th century; African Americans - Music - History and criticism
• 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 (p. [339]-375) 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.