Monson, Ingrid - Freedom Sounds

Freedom Sounds addresses the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, and develops a new framework for thinking through the relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism by carefully addressing the hot button racial and economic issues that generated contentious and soul-searching debate.

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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