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Spirits Rejoice! - Jazz and American Religion (Hardcover)
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Spirits Rejoice! - Jazz and American Religion (Hardcover)
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Spirits Rejoice! takes its name from a record by jazz saxophonist
of the mid-1960s, Albert Ayler-later used, with an exclamation
point added, by Louis Moholo-Moholo-and is appropriated in Jason
Bivins's book to express the overlap of religion and jazz music
through history. Bivins explore themes that have resounded
throughout the musical genre that are also integral to the practice
of religions in the United States. Much writing about jazz falls
into one of three categories: glorified record reviews or
discographies; impressionistic descriptions of the actual sounds
and dense musicological analyses; or contextualizing it within
institutions or extant narratives that are easier to analyze. Using
religious studies as a point of comparison Bivins seeks to go
beyond these approaches. Instead, he takes to heart a commonly
invoked characteristic of jazz, and improvises on the standard
questions and stories that might be told. Rather than producing a
history or a series of biographical entries, Spirits Rejoice! will
generate a collection of themes, pursuits, reoccurring foci, and
interpretations. When ranging across the cultural history of
American jazz, these themes emerge not just in the musicians' own
words (in interviews, liner notes, or journals) but also from the
bandstand, audience reception, and critical interrogation. Bivins
looks at themes such as musical creativity as related to specific
religious traditions, jazz as a form of ritual and healing, and
jazz cosmologies and metaphysics, drawing conclusions that explore
how "the sound of spirits rejoicing" challenges not only prevailing
understandings of race and music, but also the way we think about
"religion."
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