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Soundtrack to a Movement - African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism (Paperback)
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Soundtrack to a Movement - African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism (Paperback)
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**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.
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