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Auteur(s) : Kelley, Robin D.G. (1962-....)
Titre(s) : Africa speaks, America answers [Texte imprimé] : modern jazz in revolutionary times / Robin D.G. Kelley
Publication : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012
Description matérielle : xii, 244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Collection : The Nathan I. Huggins lectures
Lien à la collection : The Nathan I. Huggins lectures
Comprend : The drum wars of Guy Warren ; The sojourns of Randy Weston ; Ahmed Abdul-Malik's
Islamic experimentalism ; The making of Sathima Bea Benjamin.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references, discography and index
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.--Publisher
description
Sujet(s) : Warren, Guy (1923-2008) -- Critique et interprétation
Jazz -- Influence
Musique et politique -- Afrique
Indice(s) Dewey :
781.657 (23e éd.) = Musique - Styles hybrides
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674046245 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0674046242 (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb426919231
Notice n° :
FRBNF42691923
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