Freedom Now!: Four Hard Bop and Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians' Musical Commentary on the Civil Rights Movement, 1958-1964.

<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>

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 dc:creator

• Henry, Lucas Aaron

• Jazz
• Civil Rights
• Hard Bop
• Free Jazz
• Little Rock
• New York City
• Religion
• Freedom
• Arts and Humanities
• History
• Music
• Political History

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• Copyright by the authors.

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/962

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-2119