The Ethnomusicology Of Jazz: Freedom Sounds by Music In Culture: Sounds of the Black Experience

This episode of Music In Culture: Sounds of the Black Experience explores the way the Black American music known as jazz reflected the African American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. I explore the rise of Black American preacher-leaders to national prominence and how John Coltrane also fulfilled that role. We also delve into how musicians use Black music to communicate liberationist and pan-African political ideologies that reflect the philosophies of Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X. Finally, I explore the way freedom singers like Abbey Lincoln and Nina Simone expressed collective African American anger towards racial injustices.