East Tennessee State University
Freedom Now!: Four Hard Bop and Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians' Musical Commentary on the Civil Rights Movement, 1958-1964.
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>In this study, I examined musical recordings from the jazz idiom that relate to events or ideas involved in the Civil Rights Movement during the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s. The study focused on the four following musicians' recordings: Charles Mingus, <em>Fables of Faubus</em>; Sonny Rollins, <em>The Freedom Suite</em>; Ornette Coleman, <em>Free Jazz</em>; and John Coltrane, <em>A Love Supreme</em>. The study relies primarily on the aforementioned recordings, critics analysis of those recordings, and events that took place during the Civil Right Movement.</p> <p>The study concludes that these recordings are not only commentary about ideas and events but historically representative of the movement as well.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- MA (Master of Arts)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis - unrestricted
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2004
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Henry, Lucas Aaron
Subjects
dc:subject × 12Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright by the authors.
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/962
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-2119