TY - BOOK ID - 135549899 TI - Soundtrack to a movement : African American Islam, jazz, and Black internationalism PY - 2021 SN - 1479849693 PB - New York : New York University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Jazz KW - African American Muslims. KW - African Americans KW - Internationalism KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam KW - Religion. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135549899 AB - Amid the social change and liberation of the civil rights and Black Power movements, the tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded a tribute to Malcolm X's emancipatory political consciousness. Shepp saw similarities between his revolutionary hero and John Coltrane, one of the most influential jazz musicians of the era. Later, the esteemed trumpeter Miles Davis echoed Shepp's sentiment, recognising that Coltrane's music represented the very passion, rage, rebellion, and love that Malcolm X preached. This book examines the link between the revolutionary Black Islam of the post-WWII generation and jazz music. It argues that from the late 1940s and '50s though the 1970s, Islam rose in prominence among African Americans in part because of the embrace of the religion among jazz musicians. ER -