{"product_id":"freedom-is-freedom-aint-jazz-and-the-making-of-the-sixties-9780674018532","title":"Freedom Is  Freedom Aint: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the long decade between the mid-1950s and the late 60s  jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roachs Freedom Now Suite  John Coltranes A Love Supreme  and Charles Minguss The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive  its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement  the Black Power movement  and the counterculture. Freedom Is  Freedom Aint is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazzand Americanhistory.  The storys central figures are jazz musicians like Coltrane and Mingus  who rewrote the conventions governing improvisation and composition as they sought to infuse jazz with that gritty exuberance known as soul. Scott Saul describes how these and other jazz musicians of the period engaged in a complex cultural balancing act: utopian and skeptical  race-affirming and cosmopolitan  they tried to create an art that would make uplift into something forceful  undeniable in its conviction  and experimental in its search for new possibilities. Freedom Is  Freedom Aint considers these musicians and their allies as a cultural front of the Civil Rights movement  a constellation of artists and intellectuals whose ideas of freedom pushed against a Cold War consensus that stressed rational administration and collective security. Capturing the social resonance of the musics marriage of discipline and play  the book conveys the artistic and historical significance of the jazz culture at the start  and the heart  of the Sixties.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647827599413,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674018532","price":28.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674018532.jpg?v=1781697363","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/freedom-is-freedom-aint-jazz-and-the-making-of-the-sixties-9780674018532","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}