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Hardcover Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times Book

ISBN: 0674046242

ISBN13: 9780674046245

Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times

(Part of the The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures Series)

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. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950s and '60s who forged connections between jazz and Africa that definitively reshaped both their...

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