{"product_id":"freedom-sounds-paperback","title":"Freedom Sounds - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIngrid Monson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, \u003cem\u003eFreedom Sounds\u003c\/em\u003e traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid Monson illustrates how the contentious and soul-searching debates in the Civil Rights, African Independence, and Black Power movements shaped aesthetic debates and exerted a moral pressure on musicians to take action. Throughout, her arguments show how jazz musicians' quest for self-determination as artists and human beings also led to fascinating and far reaching musical explorations and a lasting ethos of social critique and transcendence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross a broad body of issues of cultural and political relevance, \u003cem\u003e Freedom Sounds \u003c\/em\u003econsiders the discursive, structural, and practical aspects of life in the jazz world in the 1950s and 1960s. In domestic politics, Monson explores the desegregation of the American Federation of Musicians, the politics of playing to segregated performance venues in the 1950s, the participation of jazz musicians in benefit concerts, and strategies of economic empowerment. Issues of transatlantic importance such as the effects of anti-colonialism and African nationalism on the politics and aesthetics of the music are also examined, from Paul Robeson's interest in Africa, to the State Department jazz tours, to the interaction of jazz musicians such Art Blakey and Randy Weston with African and African diasporic aesthetics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMonson deftly explores musicians' aesthetic agency in synthesizing influential forms of musical expression from a multiplicity of stylistic and cultural influences--African American music, popular song, classical music, African diasporic aesthetics, and other world musics--through examples from cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and the avant-garde. By considering the differences between aesthetic and socio-economic mobility, she presents a fresh interpretation of debates over cultural ownership, racism, reverse racism, and authenticity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eFreedom Sounds \u003c\/em\u003ewill be avidly read by students and academics in musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, popular music, African American Studies, and African diasporic studies, as well as fans of jazz, hip hop, and African American music.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIngrid Monson \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Supported by the Time Warner Endowment at Harvard University where she holds a joint appointment in the departments of Music and African and African American Studies. Her research interests include jazz, African American music, and the music of Mali.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.93 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47278047592697,"sku":"9780199757091","price":83.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/alViSXdmbnp0V0w1dFdYVC9uQmRrQT09.webp?v=1769002614","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/freedom-sounds-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}