Africa Speaks, America Answers - Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times

Informationen zum Autor Robin D. G. Kelley is Gary B. Nash Chair of U.S. History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and culture of both continents. Zusammenfassung This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn! Ghana! and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz! how modern jazz helped form a new African identity! and how musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and culture of both continents.

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• Authors: Robin D. G. Kelley, Kelley Robin D. G.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2012
• EAN: 9780674046245
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04624-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 215 mm x 24 mm
• Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures; The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures; The Nathan I Huggins Lectures (HUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Jazz, History, HISTORY / Africa / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Popular Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters