Africa speaks, America answers : modern jazz in revolutionary times /

In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. Th...

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Main Author: Kelley, Robin D. G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Series:Nathan I. Huggins lectures.
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Online Access:CONNECT