`John Coltrane'...; `Black Music'...: Two new books on roots of jazz and Black struggle

From: New Pittsburgh Courier | Date: May 13, 1998 | Copyright information

`John Coltrane'...; `Black Music'...: Two new books on roots of jazz and Black struggle

JOHN COLTRANE

NEW YORK--Pathfinder Press has just published two new books on the roots of jazz and the Black struggle: "John Coltrane and the Jazz Revolution of the 1960s" and "Black Music, White Business: Illuminating the History and Political Economy of Jazz." Both are by Frank Kofsky, a frequent lecturer on the history of jazz who died in 1997.

Jazz as an art form, Kofsky argued, cannot be separated from the constellation of social, political and economic forces confronting the Black urban population in ...

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