Hannibal Lokumbe - Spiritual Soundscapes of Music, Life, and Liberation

This is a captivating, vital portrait and spiritual biography of the pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician Hannibal Lokumbe.

List of contents

Introduction: Musical Alchemy and Spiritual Liberation
1. The Passages of Youth in Texas
2. New York City and the Jazz Years
3. Composing the Spiritatorios
4. The Jonah People and Becoming the Work
5. The Music Liberation Orchestra in Prisons and Schools
Conclusion: “Pure Mind Has No Time”
Coda: The Living Temples
After Coda: “The Shadow,” poem by Hannibal Lokumbe, 1976
Notes
Acknowledgments
Bibliography

About the author

Lauren Coyle Rosen is a cultural anthropologist, artist, and author of Fires of Gold, Law in Light, and seven volumes of poetry and art.

Summary

This is a captivating, vital portrait and spiritual biography of the pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician Hannibal Lokumbe.

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Coyle Rosen, Lauren Lokumbe Coyle Rosen, Lauren/ Lokumbe Coyle Rosen, Hannibal Lokumbe
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2024
• EAN: 9780231217859
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21785-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Jazz, Biography: general, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Popular Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Theory of music and musicology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black, biography & autobiography; music