Monson, Ingrid - Freedom Sounds

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.

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CONTENTS

1 Introduction
2 Jim Crow, Economics, and the Politics of Musicianship
3 Modernism, Race, and Aesthetics
4 Africa, The Cold War and the Diaspora at Home
5 Activism and Fundraising from Freedom Now to the Freedom Rides
6 Activism and Fundraising from Birmingham to Black Power
7 The Debate Within: White Backlash, The New Thing, and Economics
8 Aesthetic Agency and Self-Determination
9 Coda