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Lift Every Voice and Swing - Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century (Hardcover)
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Lift Every Voice and Swing - Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century (Hardcover)
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Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab
Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives
of African American religion in the twentieth century Beginning in
the 1920s, the Jazz Age propelled Black swing artists into national
celebrity. Many took on the role of race representatives, and were
able to leverage their popularity toward achieving social progress
for other African Americans. In Lift Every Voice and Swing, Vaughn
A. Booker argues that with the emergence of these popular jazz
figures, who came from a culture shaped by Black Protestantism,
religious authority for African Americans found a place and
spokespeople outside of traditional Afro-Protestant institutions
and religious life. Popular Black jazz professionals-such as Ella
Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou
Williams-inherited religious authority though they were not
official religious leaders. Some of these artists put forward a
religious culture in the mid-twentieth century by releasing
religious recordings and putting on religious concerts, and their
work came to be seen as integral to the Black religious ethos.
Booker documents this transformative era in religious expression,
in which jazz musicians embodied religious beliefs and practices
that echoed and diverged from the predominant African American
religious culture. He draws on the heretofore unexamined private
religious writings of Duke Ellington and Mary Lou Williams, and
showcases the careers of female jazz artists alongside those of
men, expanding our understanding of African American religious
expression and decentering the Black church as the sole concept for
understanding Black Protestant religiosity. Featuring gorgeous
prose and insightful research, Lift Every Voice and Swing will
change the way we understand the connections between jazz music and
faith.
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