Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (924 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674046242 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Africa Speaks, America Answers is a marvelous book. Von Eschen, author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War)Continually surprising. Filled with stories and songs that need to be heard, Africa Speaks, America Answers is an essential addition to any jazz library. A fascinating and pathbreaking contribution to African diasporic and music studies. (Manthia Diawara, author of In Search of Africa)Kelley vividly captures this all-star quartet riffing on new alternatives within jazz. (Penny M. (Jason Moran, jazz pianist, composer, and 2010 MacArthur Fellow)Africa Speaks, America Answers is an exquisitely rendered account of the lives of African and African American musicians, their music, and their worlds. Kelley transforms our understanding of jazz, the history of Africa and its diaspora, and the global circulation of culture. (Peter Monaghan Chronicle of Higher Education 2012-02-19
Mark Levine said Predictably Fine. As one might expect from the author of the recent and superb biography of Thelonious Monk, Professor Robin Kelley has given us a fine, if smaller, book, an offshoot of the Nathan Huggins lectures. The subject here is the modern, rather than longer historical, interplay of American and African jazz music, focusing on the Ghanaian drummer Guy Warren, the great American pianist Randy Weston (who deservedly gets the lion's share of attention), the South African singer Sathima Bea Benjamin, and what we learn here is the American oud and bass player Ahmed Abdul-Malik, despite his lifelong clai. "Interesting Look at Jazz and Africa" according to HuntleyMC. I originally purchased this eBook for a college course that I ended up dropping but I decided to read the book anyway it was very interesting. It is always a pleasure to read a well researched book. Even though I will probably take the course in an upcoming semester I am sure I gained more from reading it now than I would have if I read it while taking the class where my time would have been more limited.. Stephen Karpovich said Recommended. Another intelligent, well-researched book from Professor Robin Kelley. Fascinating account of musical cross pollination between Africa and the U.S. during a pivotal time of great cultural and political awakening. Especially liked the chapters on Randy Weston and Sathima Bea Benjamin.
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. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. 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. The result was an abundance of conversation, collaboration, and tension between African and African American musicians during the era of decolonization. Documenting individuals and places, from Lagos to Chicago, from New York to Cape Town, Robin Kelley gives us a meditation
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