Bivins, Jason - Spirits Rejoice!

Spirits Rejoice! takes its name from a record by jazz saxophonist of the mid- 1960s, Albert Ayler--later used, with an exclamation point added, by Louis Moholo-Moholo--and is appropriated in Jason Bivins's book to express the overlap of religion and jazz music through history. Bivins explore themes that have resounded throughout the musical genre that are also integral to the practice of religions in the United States.

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CONTENTS

Chapter One: First Meditations
Chapter Two: Procession of the Great Ancestry: Traditions Jazz and Religious
Chapter Three: Shadows on a Wall: Jazz Narrates American Religions
Chapter Four: Urban Magic: Jazz Communitarianism
Chapter Five: The Magic of Juju: Improvising Ritual
Chapter Six: The Tao of Mad Phat: Jazz Meditation and Mysticism
Chapter Seven: Other Planes of There: Jazz Cosmologies and Harmonialism
Chapter Eight: Spirits Rejoice! Beyond Religion
Notes
Bibliography
Index