{"title":"The Faith of Universal Brotherhood","authors":"R. Turner","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479871032.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479871032.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 looks at the forces of transnationalism, black internationalism, masculinity, freedom, and social justice that encouraged black bebop musicians to convert to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the 1940s and 1950s. It examines the Islamic mission of the Ahmadis in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Detroit. The chapter explores the spiritual awakening of jazz artists including Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Dakota Staton, Talib Dawud, Yusef Lateef, Kenny Clarke, and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.","PeriodicalId":218509,"journal":{"name":"Soundtrack to a Movement","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126551549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"R. Turner","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479871032.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479871032.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The conclusion completes our exploration of African American Islam and jazz. It explores the black Atlantic visions of Islamic jazz artists and their musical legacies among jazz musicians such as Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It also calls to our attention the hip hop artists who embraced Islam in the late 1970s and 1980s.","PeriodicalId":218509,"journal":{"name":"Soundtrack to a Movement","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116565135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Islamic and Christian Influences in Jazz","authors":"R. Turner","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479871032.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479871032.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 examines how important stylistic changes in jazz’s sounds and musical practices, which influenced the reception of swing and bebop, helped to shape the construction of African American religious internationalism in black Christianity and Islam. It presents the journey of Malcolm Little as a swing jazz dancer and a practitioner of Garveyism as a case study of the themes of social justice and black representations of masculinities that jazz and Islam shared. Chapter 1 also discusses his first encounters with Islam, which took place when he studied the religion with Malcolm “Shorty” Jarvis and a missionary from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Boston.","PeriodicalId":218509,"journal":{"name":"Soundtrack to a Movement","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124122676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Turn to Allah, Pray to the East”","authors":"R. Turner","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479871032.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479871032.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 traces the development of the Nation of Islam and its first appearance in American prisons. It examines Malcolm X’s and Shorty Jarvis’s identification with the Nation of Islam in Massachusetts prisons in the 1940s and 1950s. The chapter explores how bebop jazz encouraged new performances of black masculinities and religious and musical configurations outside the earlier musical world of swing. It looks at Boston’s Nation of Islam Temple, which Malcolm X established along with black jazz musicians in 1954.","PeriodicalId":218509,"journal":{"name":"Soundtrack to a Movement","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132901609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hard Bop, Free Jazz, and Islam","authors":"R. Turner","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479871032.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479871032.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 4 examines the shared goals and values of jazz and Islam through the wider lens of Sunni Islam, the Nation of Islam, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, and the militant aesthetic of hard bop and free jazz in the late 1950s and 1960s. The chapter tells the story of jazz artists who played their music in Third World Muslim countries during the Cold War. Black internationalists saw a contemporaneous emergence of black American and African freedom struggles across the black Atlantic world during this period. Malcolm X’s and John Coltrane’s meditations on Islam, jazz, and Pan-Africanism resonated with the spirit of the civil rights and Black Power era in the 1960s.","PeriodicalId":218509,"journal":{"name":"Soundtrack to a Movement","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114887622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}