Description: "This book explores the historical connections among jazz, African American Islam, and Black internationalism from the 1940s to the 1970s. It shows that in the post-World War II era through the 1970s, the social justice values that Islam and jazz shared were key to the growth of African American Islamic communities in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. This book argues that it was jazz musicians who led the way in shaping encounters with Islam as they developed a black-Atlantic cool that shaped both Black religion, jazz styles, and Black masculinity and femininity during the Cold War and continuing up to the civil rights and Black Power movements in the 1960s"--
Brief description:
Richard Brent Turner is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the African American Studies Program at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Jazz Religion, The Second Line, and Black New Orleans, New Edition, and Islam in the
African-American Experience, Second Edition. Turner is a 2020 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow.
Review Quotes: "A pathbreaking study that traces the importance of Islam in the development of bebop jazz and recognizes the role of African American musicians in the development of bebop and African American Islam."-- "American Historical Review"