Dreams in double time : on race, freedom, and bebop / Jonathan Leal.
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TextSeries: Refiguring American musicPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: xiii, 238 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781478019985
- 1478019980
- 9781478020752
- 147802075X
- Jazz -- History and criticism
- Jazz -- Japan -- History and criticism
- Bop (Music) -- History and criticism
- Jazz -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Music and race -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Araki, James T
- Raúlrsalinas, 1934-2008
- Wing, Harold
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In Dreams in Double Time Jonathan Leal examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized communities. Blending lyrical nonfiction with transdisciplinary critique and moving beyond standard Black/white binary narratives of jazz history, Leal focuses on the stories and experiences of three musicians and writers of color: James Araki, a Nisei multi-instrumentalist, soldier-translator, and literature and folklore scholar; Raúl Salinas, a Chicano poet, jazz critic, and longtime activist who endured the US carceral system for over a decade; and Harold Wing, an Afro-Chinese American drummer, pianist, and songwriter who performed with bebop pioneers before working as a public servant. Leal foregrounds that for these men and their collaborators, bebop was an affectively and intellectually powerful force that helped them build community and dream new social possibilities. Bebop's complexity and radicality, Leal contends, made it possible for those like Araki, Salinas, and Wing who grappled daily with state-sanctioned violence to challenge a racially supremacist, imperial nation, all while hearing and making the world anew.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"Dreams in Double Time examines how bebop, a musical genre developed by Black experimentalists in the 1940s, was especially generative for nonwhite listeners in the years following World War II. To construct this cultural history of jazz, Jonathan Leal links three (audio)biographical narratives: James T. Araki, a Nisei multi-instrumentalist and scholar credited with helping introduce bebop to Japan during the Allied Occupation; Raúl R. Salinas, a Mexican American poet, jazz critic, and activist working against the American criminal justice system who helped document East Austin's rich music histories; and Harold Wing, an Afro-Chinese American drummer, pianist, and songwriter who performed with bebop pioneers before eventually working as a public servant in Newark's City Hall in response to the uprisings of the late sixties. The book begins with a cultural history of the emergence of bebop in Harlem and then dedicates a chapter to each of these figures, contextualizing their stories and building connections between their stories. Grounded in musical practice, relational study, and personal narrative, Dreams in Double Time offers a powerful and poetic cultural history of communal creativities in the postwar years"-- Provided by publisher.