Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties

by Scott Saul

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This text tells the story of the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties - 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.

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Scott Saul is a professor of English at the University of California-Berkeley. His writing has appeared in Harper's, the New York Times, and The Nation, among other publications. He is the author of Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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Music, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Art & Design
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781.65097309046Arts & recreationMusicGeneral principles and musical formsTraditions of musicJazz {equally instrumental and vocal}
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ML3508 .S28MusicLiterature on musicLiterature on musicHistory and criticismPopular music
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