| Title | Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Author | Monson, Ingrid |
| Number of Pages | 402 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| City | New York |
| Publication Language | eng |
| ISBN or ASIN Number | 2147483647 |
| Keywords | Activism, Africa, African American history, African American Music, African History, African Independence, Black Power Movement, Civil Rights Movement, jazz, Politics |
| URL | https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Sounds-Civil-Rights-Africa/dp/0199757097/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1493149448&sr=8-1&keywords=freedom+sounds+civil+rights |
| Copies at the Archive | 2 |
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 the hot-button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid Monson illustrates how the contentious soul-searching debates in the Civil Rights, African Independence, and Black Power movements shaped aesthetic discussion and exerted a moral pressure on musicians to take action. Freedom Sounds will 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.
Ingrid Monson is 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.
