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Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa Monson, Ingrid (Professor of African American Music, Professor of African American Music, Harvard University)
Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa
Monson, Ingrid (Professor of African American Music, Professor of African American Music, Harvard University)
An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of racial and economic issues, and led to far reaching musical explorations by jazz musicians and artists.
416 pages, 16 b/w halftones; 16 music examples
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 6, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195128253 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 416 |
| Dimensions | 166 × 241 × 26 mm · 790 g |
| Language | English |