Title Africa speaks, America answers : modern jazz in revolutionary times / Robin D.G. Kelley

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations Series The Nathan I. Huggins lectures Nathan I. Huggins lectures. Contents The drum wars of Guy Warren -- The sojourns of Randy Weston -- Ahmed Abdul-Malik's Islamic experimentalism -- The making of Sathima Bea Benjamin Summary 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 and Africa that definitively reshaped both their music and the world. Each artist identified in particular ways with Africa's struggle for liberation and made music dedicated to, or inspired by, demands for independence and self-determination. That music was the wild, boundary-breaking exultation of modern jazz. The result was an abundance of conversation, collaboration, and tension between African and African American musicians during the era of decolonization. This collective biography demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered politics and culture on both continents. In a crucial moment when freedom electrified the African diaspora, these black artists sought one another out to create new modes of expression. Documenting individuals and places, from Lagos to Chicago, from New York to Cape Town, Robin Kelley gives us a meditation on modernity: we see innovation not as an imposition from the West but rather as Indigenous, multilingual, and messy, the result of innumerable exchanges across a breadth of cultures This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and culture of both continents Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Subject Warren, Guy, 1923-2008. Weston, Randy, 1926-2018 Abdul-Malik, Ahmed. Benjamin, Sathima Bea. Fela, 1938-1997. Abdul-Malik, Ahmed Benjamin, Sathima Bea Fela, 1938-1997 Warren, Guy, 1923-2008 Weston, Randy, 1926-2018 Weston, Randy 1926-2018 Benjamin, Sathima Bea 1936-2013 Fela 1938-1997 Benjamin, Sathima Bea, 1936- Abdul-Malik, Ahmed 1927-1993 Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld Jazz -- African influences. Jazz -- 1951-1960 -- History and criticism Jazz -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism Jazz musicians -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians. MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global) Jazz Jazz -- African influences Jazz musicians Jazz Online-Ressource Afrika Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2011039028 ISBN 9780674065246 0674065247 9780674068339 0674068335

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