Spirits rejoice!
Subtitle: jazz and American religion
By: Jason C. Bivins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780190230913
Subjects: Jazz; Music; Religious aspects; History and criticism
Description: "Bivins explores the relationship between American religion and American music, and the places where religion and jazz have overlapped" --Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: First meditations; title: Procession of the great ancestry : traditions jazz and religious; title: Shadows on a wall : jazz narrates American religions; title: Urban magic : jazz communitarianism; title: The magic of Juju : improvising ritual; title: The Tao of mad Phat : jazz meditation and mysticism; title: Other planes of there : jazz cosmologies and metaphysics; title: Spirits rejoice! : beyond religion.