Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robin D. G. KelleySeries:Nathan I. Huggins LecturesPublish date:2012-02-27Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674046245ISBN-10:674046242UPC:9780674046245Book Category:Music, HistoryBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Africa, United StatesBook Topic:Jazz, 20th CenturySize:8.24 x 5.79 x 0.96 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCK64Z7T1E
In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950s and '60s who forged connections between jazz...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674046245ISBN-10:674046242UPC:9780674046245Book Category:Music, HistoryBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Africa, United StatesBook Topic:Jazz, 20th CenturySize:8.24 x 5.79 x 0.96 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCK64Z7T1E
Robin D. G. Kelley is Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Author's Home: Beverly Hills, CA
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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